Blood pressure and smoking: observations on a national cohort.

@article{Charlton1995BloodPA,
  title={Blood pressure and smoking: observations on a national cohort.},
  author={Anne Charlton and David While},
  journal={Archives of Disease in Childhood},
  year={1995},
  volume={73},
  pages={294 - 297},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:9004710}
}
Lower blood pressure and slower pulse rate were related to the onset of smoking in children in a national cohort study in Britain.
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