Images of little cigars and cigarillos on instagram identified by the Hashtag #Swisher: Thematic analysis

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Allem, Jon Patrick ^a   Escobedo, Patricia ^a   Chu, Kar Hai ^b   Cruz, Tess Boley ^a   Unger, Jennifer B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Blunts; Cigarillos; Health behavior; Instagram; Little cgars; Social media; Swisher; Tobacco use

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL MEDIA; TOBACCO; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; PREVALENCE; SOCIAL MEDIA; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; TOBACCO SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85026462202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.7634     Document Type: Article

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