Assessing consumer responses to potential reduced-exposure tobacco products: A review of tobacco industry and independent research methods

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3225-3240

  Rees, Vaughan W ^a   Kreslake, Jennifer M ^a   Cummings, K Michael ^b   O'Connor, Richard J ^b   Hatsukami, Dorothy K ^c   Parascandola, Mark ^d   Shields, Peter G ^e   Connolly, Gregory N ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; FILTER; HUMAN; MARKETING; OPEN FIELD TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEER REVIEW; POPULATION RESEARCH; POTENTIAL REDUCED EXPOSURE TOBACCO PRODUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SENSORY EVALUATION; THERMOMETER; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 73349112851     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-09-0946     Document Type: Review

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