‘Maybe they should regulate themquite strictly until they know the true dangers’: A focus group study exploring UK adolescents’ views on e-cigarette regulation

Addiction

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1637-1645

  Weishaar, Heide ^a   Trevisan, Filippo ^b   Hilton, Shona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Age of sale; E cigarettes; Focus groups; Marketing; Regulation; Use in public places

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MARKETING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SMOKING; VAPING;

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MALE; MARKETING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SMOKING; TOBACCO SMOKING; VAPING;

EID: 84963979985     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/add.13377     Document Type: Article

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