Smoker (mis)perceptions associated with pack colouring: National survey data

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 123, Issue 1320, 2010, Pages

  Wilson, Nick ^a   Peace, Jo ^a   Weerasekera, Deepa ^a   Hoek, Janet ^a   Edwards, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LETTER; MENTAL HEALTH; NEW ZEALAND; PERCEPTION; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; ADULT; AGE; CLASSIFICATION; COLOR; EPIDEMIC; ETHNIC GROUP; MARKETING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PACKAGING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; TOBACCO;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; COLOR; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; MARKETING; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRODUCT LABELING; SMOKING; TOBACCO;

EID: 77955998626     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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