Towards a Critical Anthropology of Smoking: Exploring the Consequences of Tobacco Control

Abstract

The World Health Organization warned today that countries will need to be much more aggressive in their attempts to stamp out smoking if they are to counter the tobacco industry's marketing techniques (WHO, 2008).

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