The origins of personal responsibility rhetoric in news coverage of the tobacco industry

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1048-1051

  Mejia, Pamela ^a   Dorfman, Lori ^a   Cheyne, Andrew ^a   Nixon, Laura ^a   Friedman, Lissy ^b   Gottlieb, Mark ^b   Daynard, Richard ^b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Public Health Advocacy Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HISTORY; HUMAN; MASS MEDIUM; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION; SMOKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; NEWSPAPERS; SMOKING; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

EID: 84901045059     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301754     Document Type: Article

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