'Cigarettes are priority': A qualitative study of how Australian socioeconomically disadvantaged smokers respond to rising cigarette prices

Health Education Research

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 599-608

  Guillaumier, Ashleigh ^a   Bonevski, Billie ^a   Paul, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BUDGET; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TAX; TOBACCO; VULNERABLE POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BUDGETS; COMMERCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; POVERTY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TAXES; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939610138     PISSN: 02681153     EISSN: 14653648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/her/cyv026     Document Type: Article

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