Chinese tobacco industry promotional activity on the microblog Weibo

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Fan ^a   Zheng, Pinpin ^a   Yang, Dongyun ^b   Freeman, Becky ^c   Fu, Hua ^a   Chapman, Simon ^c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; CHINESE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; INTERNET; MARKETING; POPULAR CULTURE; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL MEDIA; TOBACCO CULTURE; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; TRADITIONAL CULTURE; CHINA;

BLOGGING; CHINA; INTERNET; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

EID: 84902603127     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099336     Document Type: Article

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