'You get the nicotine and that in your blood' - Constructions of addiction and control in women's accounts of cigarette smoking

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 285-301

  Gillies, Val ^a   Willig, Carla ^b  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Addiction; Control; Discourse analysis; Health promotion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031485219     PISSN: 10529284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1298(199709)7:4<285::AID-CASP407>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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