Vape shop retailers’ perceptions of their customers, products and services: A content analysis

Tobacco Prevention and Cessation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Tsai, Jennifer Y ^a   Bluthenthal, Ricky ^a   Allem, Jon Patrick ^a   Garcia, Robert ^b   Garcia, Jocelyn ^a   Unger, Jennifer ^a   Baezconde Garbanati, Lourdes ^a   Sussman, Steve Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic cigarettes (e cigarettes); Qualitative; Retail; Vape shop

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045955780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24593087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18332/tpc/70345     Document Type: Article

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