Smoking in Ghana: A review of tobacco industry activity

Tobacco Control

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 206-211

  Owusu Dabo, E ^a,c   Lewis, S ^a   McNeill, A ^a   Anderson, S ^a   Gilmore, A ^b   Britton, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; CRIME; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMAN; MALE; SMOKING; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; CRIME; ECONOMIC COMPETITION; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; MALE; SMOKING; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

EID: 67649810172     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2009.030601     Document Type: Article

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