The Most Natural Tobacco Used: A Qualitative Investigation of Young Adult Smokers' Risk Perceptions of Flavored Little Cigars and Cigarillos

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 827-833

  Sterling, Kymberle L ^a   Fryer, Craig S ^b   Fagan, Pebbles ^c  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; FLAVORED LITTLE CIGAR AND CIGARILLO; HEALTH HAZARD; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMOKING; TOBACCO; YOUNG ADULT; ADDICTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMPLICATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PERCEPTION; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TASTE; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; UNITED STATES;

FLAVORING AGENT;

ADULT; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; FEMALE; FLAVORING AGENTS; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TASTE; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84964932864     PISSN: 14622203     EISSN: 1469994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntv151     Document Type: Article

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