Boycotts and Restrictive Marketing Arrangements
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The perimetric boycott: a tool for tobacco control advocacy.
OBJECTIVES To propose criteria to help advocates: (1) determine when tobacco related boycotts may be useful; (2) select appropriate targets; and (3) predict and measure boycott success. METHODS Analysis of tobacco focused boycotts retrieved from internal tobacco industry documents websites and other scholarship on boycotts. RESULTS Tobacco related boycotts may be characterised by boycott ta...
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