Individual versus corporate responsibility for smoking-related illness: Australian press coverage of the Rolah McCabe trial

Health Promotion International

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 297-305

  Wakefield, Melanie ^a   McLeod, Kim ^a   Smith, Katherine Clegg ^b  

^a CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Frame analysis; Jurisprudence; Legislation; Media advocacy; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LAW SUIT; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSIBILITY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

AUSTRALIA; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEWSPAPERS; SMOKING; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

EID: 0348148756     PISSN: 09574824     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dag413     Document Type: Article

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