Mind your "smoking manners": The tobacco industry tactics to normalize smoking in Japan

Kobe Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Kashiwabara, Mina ^a   Armada, Francisco ^a  

^a WHO Centre for Health Development   (Japan)

Author keywords

Japan; Tobacco; Tobacco industry interference

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; CONTROL STRATEGY; HUMAN; JAPAN; PUBLICATION; SMOKING BAN; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING HABIT; SMOKING MANNER; SMOKING REGULATION; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; WASTE DISPOSAL; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA;

HUMANS; JAPAN; SMOKING; SOCIOLOGICAL FACTORS; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

EID: 84887335045     PISSN: 00232513     EISSN: 18830498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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