"Like Throwing a Bowling Ball at a Battle Ship" Audience Responses to Australian News Stories about Alcohol Pricing and Promotion Policies: A Qualitative Focus Group Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Fogarty, Andrea S ^a   Chapman, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ADVERTIZING; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CONSUMER ADVOCACY; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; POLICY; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL MARKETING; SOCIOECONOMICS; TAX; ADOLESCENT; AUSTRALIA; COST; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; PUBLIC OPINION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; ALCOHOL DRINKING; AUSTRALIA; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MALE; MASS MEDIA; PUBLIC OPINION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TAXES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878767452     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065261     Document Type: Article

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