Towards a greater understanding of the illicit tobacco trade in Europe: A review of the PMI funded 'Project Star' report

Tobacco Control

Volumn 23, Issue E1, 2014, Pages

  Gilmore, Anna B ^a   Rowell, Andy ^a   Gallus, Silvano ^b   Lugo, Alessandra ^b   Joossens, Luk ^c   Sims, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b MARIO NEGRI INSTITUTE FOR PHARMACOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Italy)

^c Association of European Cancer Leagues   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CRIME; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

COMMERCE; CRIME; DATA COLLECTION; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84901831368     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2013-051240     Document Type: Article

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