Electronic cigarettes: Awareness, recent use, and attitudes within a sample of socioeconomically disadvantaged Australian smokers

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 670-677

  Twyman, Laura ^a   Bonevski, Billie ^a   Paul, Christine ^b   Bryant, Jamie ^b   Gartner, Coral ^c   Guillaumier, Ashleigh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b HUNTER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRALIAN; AWARENESS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COST; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVICE SAFETY; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL CLASS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY;

EID: 84964950486     PISSN: 14622203     EISSN: 1469994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntv183     Document Type: Article

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