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ArticleTobacco control2006

Every document and picture tells a story: using internal corporate document reviews, semiotics, and content analysis to assess tobacco advertising.

S J Anderson, T Dewhirst, P M Ling

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Article in Tobacco control, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. A Systematic Review of E-Cigarette Marketing Communication: Messages, Communication Channels, and Strategies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  7. How Menthol Is Key to the Tobacco Industry's Strategy of Recruiting and Retaining Young Smokers in Singapore.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2019
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  19. Surveillance methods for identifying, characterizing, and monitoring tobacco products: potential reduced exposure products as an example.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2009
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

S J AndersonCenter for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-1390, USA.
T Dewhirst
P M Ling

Funding

ANALYSIS OF TOBACCO INDUSTRY DOCUMENTSR01CA087472 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI LING, PAMELA MAY · 2000 to 2018
$12.5M
NCI NIH HHS CA-87472
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this article we present communication theory as a conceptual framework for conducting documents research on tobacco advertising strategies, and we discuss two methods for analysing advertisements: semiotics and content analysis. We provide concrete examples of how we have used tobacco industry documents archives and tobacco advertisement collections iteratively in our research to yield a synergistic analysis of these two complementary data sources. Tobacco promotion researchers should consider adopting these theoretical and methodological approaches.

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SmokingTobacco IndustryAdvertisingCommunicationDocumentationHumansInformation Storage and RetrievalLinguisticsResearch Design

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PMID16728758
PMCPMC2564670

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