Smoking scenes in popular Japanese serial television dramas: Descriptive analysis during the same 3-month period in two consecutive years

Health Promotion International

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 98-103

  Kanda, Hideyuki ^a   Okamura, Tomonori ^b   Turin, Tanvir Chowdhury ^b   Hayakawa, Takehito ^c   Kadowaki, Takashi ^b   Ueshima, Hirotsugu ^b  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Descriptive analysis; Japanese serial television dramas; Smoking scenes; Unit scenes

Indexed keywords

CATERING SERVICE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENT; HOME; HUMAN; JAPAN; LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TELEVISION;

ADULT; CUES; DRAMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; TELEVISION;

EID: 33744794892     PISSN: 09574824     EISSN: 14602245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dal007     Document Type: Review

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