The "ultimate prize" for big tobacco: Opening the Chinese cigarette market by cigarette smuggling

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 0968-0969

  Novotny, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINESE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SURVEY; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MARKETING; SHORT SURVEY; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; TRADE UNION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHINA; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CRIME; ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHINA; COMMERCE; CRIME; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; MARKETING; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 33746426236     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030279     Document Type: Short Survey

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