Will Nicotine Genetics and a Nicotine Vaccine Prevent Cigarette Smoking and Smoking-Related Diseases?
Open Access
- 27 September 2005
- journal article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 2 (9), e266
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0020266
Abstract
Hall argues that the preventive use of genetic and vaccine biotechnologies is a superficially attractive tobacco policy option of doubtful efficacy, cost-effectiveness, and ethicality.Keywords
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