Perceptions of young Jordanian adults to proposed anti-tobacco pictorial warning labels

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hawari, Feras I ^a   Bader, Rasha K ^a   Beano, Hamza M ^b   Obeidat, Nour A ^a   Ayub, Hiba S ^a   Habashneh, Malek A ^c   Shtaiwi, Aisha S ^a   Shihab, Rawan A ^a   Madanat, Hala N ^d,e   Novotny, Thomas E ^d,f  

^a KING HUSSEIN CANCER CENTER   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

^c Jordanian Ministry of Health   (Jordan)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e San Diego Research Center   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

fear elicitation; health warnings; Middle East; salience; tobacco

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JORDAN; MALE; PACKAGING; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; SMOKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; JORDAN; MALE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PRODUCT LABELING; SMOKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957653326     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-414     Document Type: Article

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