Results of a national mass media campaign in India to warn against the dangers of smokeless tobacco consumption

Tobacco Control

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 12-17

  Murukutla, Nandita ^a   Turk, Tahir ^a   Prasad, C V S ^b   Saradhi, Ranjana ^b   Kaur, Jagdish ^c   Gupta, Shefali ^a   Mullin, Sandra ^a   Ram, Faujdar ^d   Gupta, Prakash C ^e   Wakefield, Melanie ^f  

^a World Lung Foundation   (United States)

^b ORG Center for Social Research (The Nielsen Company)   (India)

^c GOVERNMENT OF INDIA   (India)

^d INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR POPULATION SCIENCES   (India)

^e Sekhsaria Institute for Public Health   (India)

^f CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EVALUATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL MARKETING; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MASS MEDIA; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL MARKETING; TOBACCO USE CESSATION; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857033688     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tc.2010.039438     Document Type: Article

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