A cross-sectional examination of marketing of electronic cigarettes on Twitter

Tobacco Control

Volumn 23, Issue , 2014, Pages iii26-iii30

  Huang, Jidong ^a   Kornfield, Rachel ^a   Szczypka, Glen ^a   Emery, Sherry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; NICOTINE;

ALGORITHM; BAYES THEOREM; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTRONICS; HUMAN; INTERNET; MARKETING; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; TOBACCO;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; COMMERCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES; ELECTRONICS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MARKETING; NICOTINE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84924262289     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2014-051551     Document Type: Article

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