The importance of debiasing social media data to better understand e-cigarette-related attitudes and behaviors

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Allem, Jon Patrick ^a   Ferrara, Emilio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic cigarettes; Internet; Social media; Surveillance; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; TOBACCO;

ATTITUDE; ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 84989829898     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.6185     Document Type: Letter

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