Deconstructing behavioural classifications: Tobacco control, 'professional vision' and the tobacco user as a site of governmental intervention

Alcohol, Tobacco and Obesity: Morality, Mortality and the New Public Health

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 19-32

  Mair, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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