'A real man smells of tobacco smoke'-Chinese youth's interpretation of smoking imagery in film

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1552-1559

  Davey, Gareth ^a   Zhao, Xiang ^b  

^a HONG KONG SHUE YAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b YUNNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adolescents; China; Gender identity; Health promotion; Masculinity; Smoking; Tobacco; Youth

Indexed keywords

TOBACCO SMOKE;

GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH CARE; IMAGERY; MEDIA ROLE; SMOKING; SOCIAL NETWORK; TOBACCO; YOUNG POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT SMOKING; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; FILM; GENDER IDENTITY; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MALE; MASCULINITY; SELF CONCEPT; SMOKING IMAGERY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BELIEF; SOCIOLOGY; TOBACCO;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHINA; FEMALE; FEMININITY; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MASCULINITY; MOTION PICTURES AS TOPIC; PERCEPTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK-TAKING; SMOKING; STEREOTYPING;

CHINA; YUNNAN;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84862809551     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.01.024     Document Type: Article

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