How are tobacco smokers using e-cigarettes? Patterns of use, reasons for use and places of purchase in New South Wales

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 204, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 355.e1-355.e7

  Dunlop, Sally ^a   Lyons, Claudine ^b   Dessaix, Anita ^a   Currow, David ^a  

^a CANCER INSTITUTE NSW   (Australia)

^b New South Wales Government   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TELEPHONE INTERVIEW; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; NEW SOUTH WALES; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF REPORT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMMERCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; SELF REPORT; SMOKING CESSATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84968912752     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja15.01156     Document Type: Article

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