Are marketing campaigns in Taiwan by foreign tobacco companies targeting young smokers?

Tobacco Control

Volumn 14, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Wen, C P ^a   Chen, T ^b   Tsai, Y Y ^c   Tsai, S P ^e   Chung, W S I ^a   Cheng, T Y ^a   Levy, D T ^f   Hsu, C C ^a   Peterson, R ^a   Liu, W Y ^d  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (Taiwan)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d SHIH HSIN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; GERMANY; HUMAN; JAPAN; JUVENILE; MARKETING; SMOKING; TAIWAN; TELEVISION; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERTISING; AGE FACTORS; COMMERCE; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; HUMANS; MARKETING; PERIODICALS; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; TAIWAN; TELEVISION; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

EID: 20444427946     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2004.007971     Document Type: Article

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