Key health themes and reporting of numerical cigarette–waterpipe equivalence in online news articles reporting on waterpipe tobacco smoking: A content analysis

Tobacco Control

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 43-47

  Jawad, Mohammed ^a   Bakir, Ali M ^a   Ali, Mohammed ^a   Jawad, Sena ^b   Akl, Elie A ^c,d,e  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH; HUMAN; INTERNET; MASS MEDIUM; MIDDLE EAST; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOBACCO; UNITED KINGDOM;

GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNET; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASS MEDIA; MIDDLE EAST; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; TOBACCO; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84917729236     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2013-050981     Document Type: Article

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