Everyday tactics in local moral worlds: E-cigarette practices in a working-class area of the UK

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue , 2016, Pages 106-113

  Thirlway, Frances ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Addiction; Agency; Ethnography; Gender; Health inequalities; Informal economy; Smoking cessation

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKE;

AGE; ETHNOGRAPHY; GENDER; HEALTH CARE; INFORMAL SECTOR; MORALITY; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MARKETING; MORALITY; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NORM; UNITED KINGDOM; WORK ENVIRONMENT; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; TRENDS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORALS; POVERTY AREAS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84992563927     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.10.012     Document Type: Article

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