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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US); National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (US); Office on Smoking and Health (US). How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta (GA): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US); 2010.

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How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease: A Report of the Surgeon General.

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Chemcial structures of eight H C A’s: 2-amino-9H-pyrido [2,3-b] indole; 2-amino-3-methyl-9H-pyrido [2,3-b] indole; 3-amino-1,4-dimethyl-5H-pyrido [4,3-b] indole (Trp-P-1); 3-amino-1-methyl-5H-pyrido [4,3-b] indole (Trp-P-2); 2-amino-3-methylimidazo [4,5-f] quinoline; 2-amino-6-methyldipyrido [1,2-a:3′,2′-d] imidazole (GLu-P-1); 2-aminodipyrido [1,2-a:3′,2′-d] imidazole; and 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo [4,5-b] pyridine (P h I P).

Figure 3.7Primary heterocyclic amines in tobacco smoke

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