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First-Run Smoking Presentations in U.S. Movies 1999-2006

Polansky, Jonathan R.; Glantz, Stanton PhD - Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UC … - 2007

Smoking among American adults fell by half between 1950 and 2002, yet smoking on U.S. movie screens reached historic heights in 2002, topping levels observed a half century earlier. Tobacco's comeback in movies has serious public health implications, because smoking on screen stimulates...

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Factors affecting job creating and low job creating firms owned by women in Kenya

Gakure, Roselyn Wangui - 1995

, multiple roles, lack of business skills and lack of confidence. … job creating group were older, were in business longer, belonged to more business associations, and had more capital to …Although not significantly different, the job creating group used more business promotional strategies than the low job …

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Smoking Presentation Trends in U.S. Movies 1991-2008

Titus, Kori; Glantz, Stanton PhD; Polansky, Jonathan R. - Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UC … - 2009

Tobacco presentations in commercial motion pictures are of serious public health concern because cumulative exposure to this imagery causes large numbers of adolescents to start smoking. An estimated 52% of adolescent smoking initiation is attributed to this exposure. To examine trends in the...

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