Taking play seriously: Low-level smoking among college students

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-24

  Stromberg, Peter ^a   Nichter, Mark ^b   Nichter, Mimi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Boredom; College students; Drinking; Ethnography; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MARKETING; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECREATION; SMOKING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

ARIZONA; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MARKETING; OKLAHOMA; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; SMOKING; STUDENTS; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 33847332089     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-006-9042-y     Document Type: Article

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