"Nicotine Nazis strike again": A brief analysis of the use of Nazi rhetoric in attacking tobacco control advocacy

Tobacco Control

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 291-296

  Schneider, Nick K ^a   Glantz, Stanton A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GERMANY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISTORY; HUMAN; NOTE; PASSIVE SMOKING; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

GERMANY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; NATIONAL SOCIALISM; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 53249142259     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2007.024653     Document Type: Note

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