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The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, Georgia: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2004.
Page 75 (Table 2.3), under the column "Risk estimates (95% CI)", the section headed Cigarettes/day should read:
Left column, last complete sentence in the first paragraph should read: "LBW is a leading cause of infant deaths (Martin et al. 2002)."
Right column, first sentence in last paragraph should read: "Smoking caused an estimated total of 263,600 deaths in males and 176,500 deaths in females (total of 440,100) in the United States each year from 1995-1999 (Table 7.3)."
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