Content analysis of e-cigarette products, promotions, prices and claims on Internet tobacco vendor websites, 2013-2014

Tobacco Control

Volumn 27, Issue e1, 2018, Pages E34-E40

  Williams, Rebecca S ^a   Derrick, Jason ^a   Liebman, Aliza K ^b   LaFleur, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

advertising and promotion; electronic nicotine delivery devices; public policy; surveillance and monitoring; tobacco industry

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MARKETING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MARKETING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 85051114363     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2017-053762     Document Type: Article

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