Thailand - Lighting up a dark market: British American tobacco, sports sponsorship and the circumvention of legislation

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 28-33

  MacKenzie, Ross ^a   Collin, Jeff ^b   Sriwongcharoen, Kobkul ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA)   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS RESTRICTION; ADVERTISING; GATT; IMPORT; MEDIA INDUSTRY; SPORTS FACILITY; TOBACCO;

ARTICLE; HEALTH PROMOTION; LAW; POLITICS; PUBLICATION; SPORT; THAILAND; TOBACCO;

ADVERTISING; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MARKETING; SPORTS; THAILAND; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 33846395875     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2005.042432     Document Type: Article

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