The devil is in the detail: Tobacco industry political influence in the Dutch implementation of the 2001 EU tobacco products directive

Tobacco Control

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 545-550

  Lie, Jessamina Lih Yan ^a   Willemsen, Marc C ^a,b   De Vries, Nanne K ^a   Fooks, Gary ^c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Dutch Alliance for a Smokefree Society   (Netherlands)

^c ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN UNION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; NETHERLANDS; PACKAGING; POLITICS; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

EUROPEAN UNION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; POLITICS; PRODUCT LABELING; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84941710443     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052302     Document Type: Article

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