New cigarette brands with flavors that appeal to youth: Tobacco marketing strategies. Tobacco industry documents reveal a deliberate strategy to add flavors known to appeal to younger people

Health Affairs

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1601-1610

  Carpenter, Carrie M ^a   Wayne, Geoffrey Ferris ^a   Pauly, John L ^b   Koh, Howard K ^c   Connolly, Gregory N ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Practice of Public Health

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAVORING AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DRUG INDUSTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MARKETING; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMERCE; DRUG INDUSTRY; FEMALE; FLAVORING AGENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MARKETING; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 28444494709     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 02782715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.24.6.1601     Document Type: Review

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