Is exposure to e-cigarette communication associated with perceived harms of e-cigarette secondhand vapour? Results from a national survey of US adults

BMJ Open

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Tan, Andy S L ^a,b   Bigman, Cabral A ^c   Mello, Susan ^d   Sanders Jackson, Ashley ^e  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; AIR POLLUTANT; GAS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CAUCASIAN; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PASSIVE SMOKING; POPULATION RESEARCH; RACE; SELF CONCEPT; SMOKING; ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ADVERTISING; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; GAS; HUMAN RELATION; MASS MEDIUM; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; TOXICITY; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; COMMUNICATION; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES; FEMALE; GASES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MASS MEDIA; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926500133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007134     Document Type: Article

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