100 million views of electronic cigarette YouTube videos and counting: Quantification, content evaluation, and engagement levels of videos

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Huang, Jidong ^a   Kornfield, Rachel ^b   Emery, Sherry L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic cigarettes; Electronic nicotine delivery systems; ENDS; Social media; Tobacco products; YouTube

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISING; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; HUMAN; INTERNET; PUBLIC HEALTH; SAFETY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; VIDEORECORDING;

ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES; HUMANS; INTERNET; PUBLIC HEALTH; SAFETY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84962124788     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.4265     Document Type: Article

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