Electronic cigarettes: what are they and what do they do?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1394, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 5-30

  Breland, Alison ^a   Soule, Eric ^a   Lopez, Alexa ^a   Ramôa, Carolina ^a   El Hellani, Ahmad ^b   Eissenberg, Thomas ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

electronic cigarette; review; tobacco control

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; DEVICES; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROCEDURES; SMOKING;

ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; SMOKING;

EID: 85019116122     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12977     Document Type: Review

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