CORESTA Guidelines for Descriptive Consumer-Reported Outcome Measures in Tobacco and Nicotine Research

Lai Wei; Emilie Clerc; Stacey McCaffrey; Mohamadi Sarkar; Christelle Chrea; Krishna Prasad

doi:10.2478/cttr-2026-0001

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