The More Fear, the More Effect? Is There any Threshold Limit for Labelling Cigarette Packs?

authors:

avatar Fatemeh Kokabisaghi 1 , 2 , *

Healthcare and Law Department, Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Department of Management Sciences and Health Economics, School of Health, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
Health Scope: Vol.7, issue 2; e80383
published online: May 27, 2018
article type: Editorial
received: October 12, 2016
revised: April 5, 2017
accepted: July 26, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5812/jhealthscope.80383

how to cite: Kokabisaghi F. The More Fear, the More Effect? Is There any Threshold Limit for Labelling Cigarette Packs?. Health Scope. 2018;7(2):e80383. https://doi.org/10.5812/jhealthscope.80383.

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