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Tobacco control and ‘plain packaging’: performativity, cigarettes and the semiotics of brand names

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    Margaret J. Moran Stritch

  2. Faculty of Business & Humanities, Limerick Institute of Technology, Limerick, Ireland

    Frank Houghton, Diane O’Doherty & Derek McInerney

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Moran Stritch, M.J., Houghton, F., O’Doherty, D. et al. Tobacco control and ‘plain packaging’: performativity, cigarettes and the semiotics of brand names. Ir J Med Sci 189, 405–407 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11845-019-02066-9

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