Exploring perception of Indians about plain packaging of tobacco products: A mixed method research

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 1, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages 35-

  Arora, Monika ^a   Tewari, Abha ^b   Grills, Nathan ^c   Nazar, Gaurang P ^b   Sonrexa, Juhi ^c   Gupta, Vinay K ^a   Moodie, Rob ^d   Reddy, K S ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^b Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Health policy; Low middle income countries; Packaging; Public health; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962253119     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2013.00035     Document Type: Article

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