Video games and the next tobacco frontier: Smoking in the Starcraft universe

Tobacco Control

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 443-444

  Barrientos Gutierrez, Tonatiuh ^a,b   Barrientos Gutierrez, Inti ^a   Thrasher, James ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECREATION; SMOKING; SOLDIER; STATISTICS;

ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; SMOKING; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 85027944265     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2011-050314     Document Type: Article

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