UCSF UC San Francisco Previously Published Works Title Taking ad-Vantage of lax advertising regulation in the USA and Canada: Reassuring and distracting health-concerned smokers Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/05s8b040 Journal Social Science & Medicine, 63(8) ISSN 0277-9536 Authors Anderson, Stacey J Pollay, Richard W Ling, Pamela M Publication Date 2006-10-01 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Taking Ad-Vantage of Lax Advertising Regulation in the USA and Canada: Reassuring and Distracting Health-Concerned Smokers Stacey J. Anderson, Ph.D.1,§, Richard W. Pollay, Ph.D.2, and Pamela M. Ling, M.D., M.P.H.1 1Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education and Division of General Internal Medicine University of California, San Francisco 530 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 366, Box 1390 San Francisco, CA 94143-1390 USA 2Sauder School of Business University of British Columbia 2053 Main Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 Canada §Corresponding Author Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education University of California, San Francisco 530 Parnassus Avenue, Suite 366, Box 1390 San Francisco, CA 94143-1390 USA tel: +1 (415) 502-4181 fax: +1 (415) 514-9345 email.
[email protected] Acknowledgments We thank the faculty and fellows of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF and three anonymous reviewers for their excellent comments on a previous draft of this work. We are grateful to Professor Virginia Ernster for allowing us access to her advertising collection. This work was supported by National Cancer Institute Grant number CA-87472, California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program Grant number 14FT-0013, the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute, and the American Legacy Foundation.