“Cloud chasers” and “substitutes”: e-cigarettes, vaping subcultures and vaper identities

Sociology of Health and Illness

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 917-932

  Tokle, Rikke ^a   Pedersen, Willy ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

e cigarettes; identity; smoking; subculture; symbolic boundaries; vaping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORWAY; PSYCHOLOGY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL STIGMA; VAPING;

ADULT; CULTURE; ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORWAY; SMOKERS; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL STIGMA; VAPING;

EID: 85060639093     PISSN: 01419889     EISSN: 14679566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.12854     Document Type: Article

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