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Publication details [#44611]

Wakefield, Melanie and Katherine Clegg Smith. 2006. Newspaper Coverage of Youth and Tobacco: Implications for Public Health. Journal of Health Communication 19 (1) : 19–28.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

drug culture | health | news reporting | youth

Place, Publisher

Erlbaum

Annotation

This paper argues that US newspaper coverage of youth tobacco use conceptualizes the tobacco problem as one requiring greater individual-level education rather than one that needs structural or policy changes.