"If you know you exist, it's just marketing poison": Meanings of tobacco industry targeting in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 996-1003

  Smith, Elizabeth A ^a   Thomson, Katherine ^a   Offen, Naphtali ^a   Malone, Ruth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERTIZING; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BISEXUALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LESBIAN; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; SOCIAL MARKETING; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; TRANSSEXUALISM; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BISEXUALITY; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HOMOSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARKETING; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUALITY; SMOKING; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; TRANSSEXUALISM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44849111251     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2007.118174     Document Type: Article

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