The prevalence of misleading tobacco descriptors in the New Zealand tobacco market [5]

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 1252, 2007, Pages

  Wilson, Nick ^a   Peace, Jo ^a   Thomson, George ^a   Edwards, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH HAZARD; LETTER; NEW ZEALAND; PACKAGING; PREVALENCE; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO;

EID: 34249285918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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