Fertility and Sterility
Volume 89, Issue 3 , Pages 502-504 , March 2008

Tobacco and fertility: our responsibilities

  • Sally Faith Dorfman, M.D., M.S.H.S.A.

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    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Sally Faith Dorfman, M.D., Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 4 Gatehall Drive, Third Floor, Parsippany, NJ 07054 (FAX: 973-796-1663).

Received 30 October 2007 ,Revised 21 December 2007 ,Accepted 3 January 2008.

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 Conflict of interest: Dr. Dorfman is an employee of Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (FPI), a company whose business does not relate to treating tobacco dependence; FPI has no medication that assists smoking cessation. Dr. Dorfman is a member of the Guideline Panel for the USPHS-sponsored Clinical Practice Guideline, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008.

PII: S0015-0282(08)00017-4

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.01.011

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 89, Issue 3 , Pages 502-504 , March 2008

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