tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học: " The strategic targeting of females by transnational tobacco companies in South Korea following trade liberalisation"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: The strategic targeting of females by transnational tobacco companies in South Korea following trade liberalisation | Globalization and Health BioMed Central Research The strategic targeting of females by transnational tobacco companies in South Korea following trade liberalisation Kelley Lee 1 Carrie Carpenter2 Chaitanya Challa3 Sungkyu Lee1 Gregory N Connolly2 and Howard K Koh2 Address 1Centre on Global Change and Health London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Keppel Street London UK 2Division of Public Health Practice Harvard School of Public Health Boston USA and 3Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education City College of New York New York USA Email Kelley Lee - Carrie Carpenter - ccarpent@ Chaitanya Challa - CChalla716@ Sungkyu Lee - Gregory N Connolly - gconnoll@ Howard K Koh - hkoh@ Corresponding author Open Access Published 30 January 2009 Received 7 August 2008 Globalization and Health 2009 5 2 doi 1744-8603-5-2 Accepted 30 January 2009 This article is available from http content 5 1 2 2009 Lee et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background In 1988 South Korea opened its cigarette market to foreign companies under the threat of US trade sanctions. Despite strong social stigma against female smoking in South Korea and restrictions on tobacco marketing to women and children smoking rates among young Korean females increased from in 1988 to 13 in 1998. Previous analyses describe how Asian countries have been targeted by transnational tobacco companies for new markets with Asian females offering substantial future growth potential. An understanding of the strategies used