Impact of e-liquid flavors on nicotine intake and pharmacology of e-cigarettes

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Volumn 178, Issue , 2017, Pages 391-398

  St Helen, Gideon ^a,b   Dempsey, Delia A ^a   Havel, Christopher M ^a   Jacob, Peyton ^a,b   Benowitz, Neal L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

E cigarette pharmacology; E cigarettes; Flavors; Nicotine delivery; Nicotine pharmacokinetics

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; FLAVORING AGENT;

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STRAWBERRY; TIME TO MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; TOBACCO; VAPING; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECTS; HEART RATE; TASTE;

CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS; FLAVORING AGENTS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; NICOTINE; TASTE; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 85030482678     PISSN: 03768716     EISSN: 18790046     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2017.05.042     Document Type: Article

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