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| Elizabeth A SmithSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Military exceptionalism or tobacco exceptionalism: how civilian health leaders' beliefs may impede military tobacco control effortsElizabeth A Smith
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Am J Public Health 103:599-604. 2013..A tobacco-free military is unlikely to be achieved without military-civilian partnerships that include educating civilian health leaders about military policy development and implementation...
Corporate image and public health: an analysis of the Philip Morris, Kraft, and Nestlé websitesElizabeth Smith
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94118, USA
J Health Commun 17:582-600. 2012..Denormalizing industries that are disease vectors, not just their products, may be critical in realizing positive change...- Philip Morris's health information web site appears responsible but undermines public healthElizabeth A Smith
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
Public Health Nurs 25:554-64. 2008..Public health nurses should be prepared to examine health information on the Internet for subtle biases, to counter PM's specific language about smoking to patients, and to challenge PM's larger corporate goals... - Whose butt is it? tobacco industry research about smokers and cigarette butt wasteElizabeth A Smith
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco, Box 0612, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
Tob Control 20:i2-9. 2011..Numerous proposals have been made to prevent or mitigate cigarette butt pollution, but none has been effective; cigarette butts are consistently found to be the single most collected item in beach clean-ups and litter surveys... - "Everywhere the soldier will be": wartime tobacco promotion in the US militaryElizabeth A Smith
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Am J Public Health 99:1595-602. 2009..Considering tobacco use a benefit undermines military health priorities. Stronger policy is needed to reframe tobacco use as incompatible with military ideals... - Death at a discount: how the tobacco industry thwarted tobacco control policies in US military commissariesElizabeth A Smith
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, Box 0612 San Francisco, CA 94143 0612, USA
Tob Control 16:38-46. 2007..Tobacco use also impairs short-term troop readiness... - Pictures worth a thousand words: noncommercial tobacco content in the lesbian, gay, and bisexual pressElizabeth A Smith
Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
J Health Commun 11:635-49. 2006..Noncommercial print images of smoking may normalize it, as movie product placement does. Media advocacy approaches could counter normalization of smoking in LGB-specific media... - 'We will speak as the smoker': the tobacco industry's smokers' rights groupsElizabeth A Smith
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco Box 0612 San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Eur J Public Health 17:306-13. 2007..This study assesses industry attempts to organize 'smokers' rights groups,' (SRGs) and the image of the smoker that underlay these efforts... 
'It's interesting how few people die from smoking': tobacco industry efforts to minimize risk and discredit health promotionElizabeth A Smith
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco San Francisco, CA 94143 0612, USA
Eur J Public Health 17:162-70. 2007..This study illuminates an industry attempt to directly undermine popular understanding of the hazards of smoking using an industry-created organization called Associates for Research in the Science of Enjoyment (ARISE)...- What makes an ad a cigarette ad? Commercial tobacco imagery in the lesbian, gay, and bisexual pressElizabeth A Smith
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Box 0612, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:1086-91. 2005..To determine the extent of commercial tobacco imagery in the lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) press... - Covering their butts: responses to the cigarette litter problemElizabeth A Smith
University of California, San Francisco, Social and Behavioral Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Tob Control 20:100-6. 2011..This paper examines how the tobacco industry has managed the cigarette butt litter issue and how the issue has been covered in the media... - Forcing the Navy to sell cigarettes on ships: how the tobacco industry and politicians torpedoed Navy tobacco controlNaphtali Offen
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Am J Public Health 101:404-11. 2011..Because of military lobbying constraints, civilian pressure on Congress may be necessary to establish effective tobacco control policies in the armed forces... - Is tobacco a gay issue? Interviews with leaders of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communityNaphtali Offen
School of Nursing, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Cult Health Sex 10:143-57. 2008..Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender tobacco-control advocates should reframe smoking as an unhealthy response to the stresses of homophobia to persuade leaders that tobacco control is central to LGBT health... - "If you know you exist, it's just marketing poison": meanings of tobacco industry targeting in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communityElizabeth A Smith
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Am J Public Health 98:996-1003. 2008..Participants did not view tobacco as a gay health issue. Targeting is a key aspect of corporate-community interaction. A better understanding of targeting may aid public health efforts to counter corporate disease promotion... - The outing of Philip Morris: advertising tobacco to gay menElizabeth A Smith
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, University of California San Francisco, 94143, USA
Am J Public Health 93:988-93. 2003..This case study describes the events surrounding the first time a major tobacco company advertised in gay media... - Altria means tobacco: Philip Morris's identity crisisElizabeth A Smith
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA
Am J Public Health 93:553-6. 2003..Company documents also suggest what the vulnerabilities of those plans are and how advocates might best exploit them... - Why strong tobacco control measures "can't" be implemented in the U.S. Military: a qualitative analysisElizabeth A Smith
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 455, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Mil Med 177:1202-7. 2012..The military, Congress, and the President should re-evaluate the "can'ts" that have prevented effective action, and act to regulate and eventually abolish tobacco use in the armed forces... - "Willful misconduct": how the US government prevented tobacco-disabled veterans from obtaining disability pensionsNaphtali Offen
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Am J Public Health 100:1166-73. 2010..Securing pensions was complicated by the notion that smoking is primarily a personal choice. The US government should compensate veterans fairly and should abolish military practices that encourage tobacco addiction... - Tobacco promotion to military personnel: "the plums are here to be plucked"Elizabeth A Smith
Department of Social and Behavioral Science, University of California, San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 455, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Mil Med 174:797-806. 2009..The U.S. military collaborated with the tobacco industry for decades, creating a military culture of smoking. Reversing that process will require strong policy establishing tobacco use as unmilitary... - "They're going to die anyway": smoking shelters at veterans' facilitiesNaphtali Offen
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
Am J Public Health 103:604-12. 2013..Civilian public health advocates should collaborate with veterans to expose the industry's manipulation, reframe the debate, and repeal the law... - How the health belief model helps the tobacco industry: individuals, choice, and "information"Edith D Balbach
Community Health Program, Tufts University, 112 Packard Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA
Tob Control 15:iv37-43. 2006....