Tobacco industry use of flavours to recruit new users of little cigars and cigarillos

Tobacco Control

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 66-74

  Kostygina, Ganna ^a   Glantz, Stanton A ^a,b   Ling, Pamela M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MENTHOL;

FEMALE; FILTRATION; HUMAN; MALE; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY;

FEMALE; FILTRATION; HUMANS; MALE; MENTHOL; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84950283103     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2014-051830     Document Type: Article

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