When health policy and empirical evidence collide: The case of cigarette package warning labels and economic consumer surplus

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Song, Anna V ^a   Brown, Paul ^a   Glantz, Stanton A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; PACKAGING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TOBACCO; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; UNITED STATES;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; PRODUCT PACKAGING; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 84893389429     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301737     Document Type: Article

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