Predictors of state legislators' intentions to vote for cigarette tax increases

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 157-165

  Flynn, Brian S ^e   Goldstein, Adam O ^e   Solomon, Laura J ^a   Bauman, Karl E ^e   Gottlieb, Nell H ^c   Cohen, Joanna E ^b   Munger, Michael C ^d   Dana, Greg S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Legislation; Legislators; Lobbying; Policy making; Public policy; Social psychology; State goverment; Taxes; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DECISION MAKING; GOVERNMENT; LAW; MANAGEMENT; POLICY; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TAX;

EID: 0032029711     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pmed.1998.0308     Document Type: Article

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