Electronic cigarettes: Peering through the smokescreen

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 90, Issue 1069, 2014, Pages 607-609

  McKee, Martin ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE;

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; EDITORIAL; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEOPLASM; NICOTINE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; ETHICS; PROCEDURES; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

EID: 84908090500     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: 14690756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2014-133029     Document Type: Editorial

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