Direct-to-Consumer Marketing of Cigar Productsin the United States

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 864-868

  Ganz, Ollie ^a,b   Teplitskaya, Lyubov ^a,c   Cantrell, Jennifer ^a,d   Hair, Elizabeth C ^a,d   Vallone, Donna ^a,e  

^a American Legacy Foundation   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER ADVERTIZING; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INCOME; MARKETING; ONLINE SYSTEM; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMICS; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; PROCEDURES; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

FLAVORING AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMERCE; DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER ADVERTISING; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES; FEMALE; FLAVORING AGENTS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MARKETING; SMOKING; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84964923529     PISSN: 14622203     EISSN: 1469994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntv190     Document Type: Article

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