A call for an urgent ban on e-cigarettes in India—a race against time

Global Health Promotion

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 71-74

  Kaur, Jagdish ^a   Rinkoo, Arvind Vashishta ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Electronic cigarettes (ECs); Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS); Nicotine; Noncommunicable diseases; Smoking cessation; Tobacco; Vaping

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ADVERSE EFFECTS; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; EMERGENCY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INDIA; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES; EMERGENCIES; GLOBAL HEALTH; HARM REDUCTION; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INDIA; NICOTINE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

EID: 84941644161     PISSN: 17579759     EISSN: 17579767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1757975914537322     Document Type: Note

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