Making big tobacco give in: You lose, they win

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 96, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2048-2054

  Wander, Nathaniel ^a,b   Malone, Ruth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; POLITICS; PUBLIC RELATIONS; REVIEW; SMOKING; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

CONSUMER ADVOCACY; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; DECEPTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISCLOSURE; HUMANS; INVESTMENTS; MARKETING; MINNESOTA; NEGOTIATING; PRODUCT LABELING; PUBLIC POLICY; SMOKING; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750435584     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.075119     Document Type: Review

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