E-cigarette awareness, perceptions and use among community-recruited smokers in Hong Kong

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Wang, Man Ping ^a   Li, William Ho Cheung ^a   Jiang, Nan ^a   Chu, Lai Yan ^a   Kwong, Antonio ^b   Lai, Vienna ^b   Lam, Tai Hing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Hong Kong Cncl on Smoking and Hlth   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHINESE; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL STATUS; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THERAPY; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; AWARENESS; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 84949528086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0141683     Document Type: Article

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