E-cigarettes, a safer alternative for teenagers? A UK focus group study of teenagers' views

BMJ Open

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Hilton, Shona ^a   Weishaar, Heide ^a   Sweeting, Helen ^a   Trevisan, Filippo ^b   Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

E Cigarettes; smoking; teenagers; understandings; vaping

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT SMOKING; AMBIGUITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; EXPERIMENTATION; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERCEPTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIAL MEDIA; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; TOBACCO USE; UNITED KINGDOM; PROCEDURES; SAFETY; SMOKING; SMOKING PREVENTION; THERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SAFETY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING PREVENTION; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84996836154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013271     Document Type: Review

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