Revisiting the Rise of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Using Search Query Surveillance

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2016, Pages e173-e181

  Ayers, John W ^a   Althouse, Benjamin M ^b,c   Allem, Jon Patrick ^d   Leas, Eric C ^e   Dredze, Mark ^f   Williams, Rebecca S ^g  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INTERNET; NICOTINE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL NORM; UNITED STATES; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMICS; INFORMATION SEEKING; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; SMOKING BAN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOBACCO; TRENDS; UTILIZATION; VAPING;

COMMERCE; ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; SMOKE-FREE POLICY; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; VAPING;

EID: 84969871599     PISSN: 07493797     EISSN: 18732607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2015.12.008     Document Type: Article

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