'They look like my kind of people' - Perceptions of smoking images in youth magazines

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 491-499

  MacFadyen, Lynn ^a   Amos, Amanda ^b   Hastings, Gerard ^a   Parkes, Edward ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Advertising; Britain; Media imagery; Smoking

Indexed keywords

PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JUVENILE; MALE; PERCEPTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADVERTISING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY IMAGE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; PERIODICALS; PREVALENCE; RISK-TAKING; SELF CONCEPT; SMOKING; STUDENTS;

EID: 0037294536     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00050-3     Document Type: Article

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