They’re heating up: Internet search query trends reveal significant public interest in heat-not-burn tobacco products

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2017, Pages

  Caputi, Theodore L ^a,b,c   Leas, Eric ^d   Dredze, Mark ^e   Cohen, Joanna E ^f   Ayers, John W ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORECASTING; HEAT NOT BURN TOBACCO PRODUCT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; JAPAN; TOBACCO; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; HEAT; SEARCH ENGINE;

ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES; HOT TEMPERATURE; INTERNET; SEARCH ENGINE; TOBACCO PRODUCTS;

EID: 85031033984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185735     Document Type: Article

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