Why Do Smokers Talk About Antismoking Campaigns? Predictors of the Occurrence and Content of Campaign-Generated Conversations

Health Communication

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 1539-1556

  Brennan, Emily ^a,b   Durkin, Sarah J ^a,b   Wakefield, Melanie ^a,b   Kashima, Yoshihisa ^b  

^a CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERTISING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; COMMUNICATION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 85000405955     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: 15327027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2016.1239301     Document Type: Article

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