Sweeter than a swisher: Amount and themes of little cigar and cigarillo content on twitter

Tobacco Control

Volumn 25, Issue , 2016, Pages i75-i82

  Kostygina, Ganna ^a   Tran, Hy ^a   Shi, Yaru ^b   Kim, Yoonsang ^a   Emery, Sherry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Advertising and promotion; Media; Non cigarette tobacco products; Tobacco industry

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CANNABIS SMOKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MARKETING; PROCEDURES; SMOKING; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOBACCO; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MARIJUANA SMOKING; MARKETING; SMOKING; SOCIAL MEDIA; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 85026482845     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2016-053094     Document Type: Article

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