What online communities can tell us about electronic cigarettes and hookah use: A study using text mining and visualization techniques

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2015, Pages e220-

  Chen, Annie T ^a   Zhu, Shu Hong ^b   Conway, Mike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cigarettes; Electronic cigarettes; Hookah smoking; Social media; Text mining; Tobacco products

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; SAFETY; SMOKING; TOBACCO; UTILIZATION;

DATA MINING; DATASETS AS TOPIC; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES; HUMANS; INTERNET; PREVALENCE; SAFETY; SMOKING; TOBACCO; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84943187678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.4517     Document Type: Article

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