Target marketing of tobacco and alcohol-related products to ethnic minority groups in the United States

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 83-98

  Moore, David J ^a   Williams, Jerome D ^b   Qualls, William J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol Marketing; Ethnic Minority Marketing; Target Marketing; Tobacco Marketing

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; AFRICAN AMERICAN; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ECONOMICS; HISPANIC; REVIEW; SMOKING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADVERTISING; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALCOHOL DRINKING; HISPANIC AMERICANS; PREJUDICE; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030472151     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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