Snus user identity and addiction. A Swedish focus group study on adolescents

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Edvardsson, Ingrid ^a,c   Troein, Margareta ^a   Ejlertsson, Göran ^b   Lendahls, Lena ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KRISTIANSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Kronoberg County Council   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Addiction; Adolescents; Content analysis; Focus group; Identity; Snus user

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; SMOKELESS TOBACCO; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SWEDEN; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL VALUES; SWEDEN; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; TOBACCO, SMOKELESS;

EID: 84868644576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-975     Document Type: Article

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