"People over profits": Retailers who voluntarily ended tobacco sales

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  McDaniel, Patricia A ^a   Malone, Ruth E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUSINESS ETHICS; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; MARKETING; MASS MEDIUM; PILOT STUDY; POLICY; PRODUCT SAFETY; PROFIT; PUBLIC OPINION; TAX; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; UNITED STATES; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MOTIVATION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY; SMOKING; TOBACCO;

COMMERCE; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MOTIVATION; NEW YORK; OHIO; SMOKING; TAXES; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84899800047     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085751     Document Type: Article

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