Development of measures assessing attitudes toward contraband tobacco among a web-based sample of smokers

Tobacco Induced Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Adkison, Sarah E ^a   O'Connor, Richard J ^a   Chaiton, Michael ^b   Schwartz, Robert ^b  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavioral economics; Contraband tobacco; Public policy; Structural equation modeling; Survey methods; Tobacco

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE ASSESSMENT; BEHAVIOR; CANADA; COMPOSITE RELIABILITY; CONTRABAND TOBACCO; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MALE; MARLOWE CROWNE SOCIAL DESIRABILITY SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK AVERSENESS SCALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TOBACCO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84928554819     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16179625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12971-015-0032-0     Document Type: Article

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