E-cigarette use and support for banning e-cigarette use in public places in the European Union

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 105, Issue , 2017, Pages 10-14

  Laverty, Anthony A ^a   Filippidis, Filippos T ^a   Fernandez, Esteve ^b,c   Vardavas, Constantine I ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention   (Belgium)

Author keywords

E cigarettes; Non cigarette tobacco products; Public opinion; Public policy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LAW; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC POLICY; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING BAN; SMOKING HABIT; TOBACCO USE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EUROPE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLIC POLICY; SMOKE-FREE POLICY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85028326740     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.08.007     Document Type: Article

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