Regulating tobacco retail in New Zealand: What can we learn from overseas?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 129, Issue 1432, 2016, Pages 74-79

  Robertson, Lindsay ^a   Marsh, Louise ^a   Edwards, Richard ^a   Hoek, Janet ^a   van der Deen, Frederieke S ^a   McGee, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGY; GOVERNMENT; LAW; LICENSING; NEW ZEALAND; TOBACCO; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; SMOKING CESSATION;

COMMERCE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; NEW ZEALAND; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84989203081     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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