"The world's most hostile environment": How the tobacco industry circumvented Singapore's advertising ban

Tobacco Control

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2004, Pages

  Assunta, M ^a   Chapman, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROL; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; SINGAPORE; SMOKING; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADVERTISING; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; LOBBYING; MALAYSIA; MALE; MARKETING; SINGAPORE; SMOKING; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

EID: 10344233171     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2004.008359     Document Type: Conference Paper

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