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Bath part of Â£5 million research centre to tackle smoking

01-23-2008 · University of Bath

The University of Bath's Tobacco Control Research Group, a collaboration between the Department of Social & POlicy Sciences and the School for Health, has been successful in securing Â£5 million funding, along with colleagues in other universities, to establish a UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies (UKCTCS).

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