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Tobacco Control 2006;15:59-63; doi:10.1136/tc.2004.009886
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The social context of smoking: the next frontier in tobacco control?

B Poland1, K Frohlich2, R J Haines1, E Mykhalovskiy3, M Rock4, R Sparks5

1 University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2 Université de Montréal, Département de médecine sociale et preventive, Montréal, Québec, Canada
3 York University, Department of Sociology, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
4 University of Calgary, Department of Community Health Sciences, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
5 University of British Columbia, School of Human Kinetics, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Blake D Poland
PhD, Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, 12 Queen’s Park Crescent West, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A8, Canada; blake.poland{at}utoronto.ca

ABSTRACT

A better understanding of the social context of smoking may help to enhance tobacco control research and practice

Keywords: reflexivity; social context; social theory


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