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Sylvester researchers receives $1.4M from Florida DoH to help construction workers quit smoking

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The Florida Department of Health granted more than $1.4 million from the James and Esther King Biomedical Research Program to Taghrid Asfar, a researcher at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, to help construction workers quit smoking.

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