American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Volume 35, Issue 2 , Pages 95-102 , August 2008

Exposure to Smoking Imagery in Popular Films and Adolescent Smoking in Mexico

  • James F. Thrasher, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
    • Departamento de Investigacion sobre Tabaco, Centro de Investigaciones en Salud Póblacional, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, México
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence and reprint requests to: James F. Thrasher, PhD, Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, University of South Carolina, 800 Sumter Street, Room #215, Columbia SC 29208.
    • ,
  • Christine Jackson, PhD

      Affiliations

    • RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
    • ,
  • Edna Arillo-Santillán, MA

      Affiliations

    • Departamento de Investigacion sobre Tabaco, Centro de Investigaciones en Salud Póblacional, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, México
    • ,
  • James D. Sargent, MD

      Affiliations

    • Noris Cotton Cancer Center, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire

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PII: S0749-3797(08)00413-3

doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2008.03.036

American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Volume 35, Issue 2 , Pages 95-102 , August 2008

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