Portrayal of waterpipe (shisha, hookah, nargile) smoking on Twitter: a qualitative exploration

Public Health

Volumn 140, Issue , 2016, Pages 128-135

  Grant, A ^a   O'Mahoney, H ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Smoking; Social media; Social media analytics; Tobacco; Twitter; Waterpipe; Youth smoking

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; PHOTOGRAPH; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SOCIAL NETWORK; TOBACCO; YOUNG POPULATION;

CONTENT ANALYSIS; ENGLISH (LANGUAGE); EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; HUMAN; JUVENILE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SMOKING; SOCIAL MEDIA; STUDY DESIGN; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

HUMANS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SMOKING; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84994242336     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: 14765616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2016.07.007     Document Type: Article

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