Follow the money: How the billions of dollars that flow from smokers in poor nations to companies in rich nations greatly exceed funding for global tobacco control and what might be done about it

Tobacco Control

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 285-290

  Callard, Cynthia ^a  

^a Physicians for a Smoke Free Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

COMMERCE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

EID: 77955291022     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2009.035071     Document Type: Article

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