"Avoid health warnings on all tobacco products for just as long as we can": A history of Australian tobacco industry efforts to avoid, delay and dilute health warnings on cigarettes

Tobacco Control

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. III, 2003, Pages

  Chapman, S ^a,b   Carter, S M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; HEALTH HAZARD; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; SMOKING; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; PACKAGING;

AUSTRALIA; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; PRODUCT LABELING; SMOKING; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

EID: 8344227728     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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