US news media coverage of tobacco control issues

Tobacco Control

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 367-372

  Long, Marilee ^a   Slater, Michael D ^b   Lysengen, Lindsay ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MASS MEDIUM; PUBLICATION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS; TELEVISION; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; UNITED STATES;

HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; NEWSPAPERS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TELEVISION; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750100173     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2005.014456     Document Type: Article

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