Prevalence of awareness, ever-use and current use of nicotine vaping products (NVPs) among adult current smokers and ex-smokers in 14 countries with differing regulations on sales and marketing of NVPs: cross-sectional findings from the ITC Project

Addiction

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2019, Pages 1060-1073

  Gravely, Shannon ^a   Driezen, Pete ^a   Ouimet, Janine ^a   Quah, Anne C K ^a   Cummings, K Michael ^b   Thompson, Mary E ^a   Boudreau, Christian ^a   Hammond, David ^a   McNeill, Ann ^c,d   Borland, Ron ^e   Thrasher, James F ^f,g   Edwards, Richard ^h   Omar, Maizurah ⁱ   Hitchman, Sara C ^j   Yong, Hua Hie ^e,j   Barrientos Gutierrez, Tonatiuh ^f   Willemsen, Marc C ^k   Bianco, Eduardo ^l   Boado, Marcelo ^m   Goma, Fastone Mathew ⁿ   Seo, Hong Gwan ^o   Nargis, Nigar ^p   Jiang, Yuan ^q   Perez, Cristina De Abreu ^r   Fong, Geoffrey T ^a,s   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE   (Australia)

^f INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

ⁱ SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

^j DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^k MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^l Centro de Investigacion para la Epidemia Del Tabaquismo   (Uruguay)

^m UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^o National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

^p AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^q CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^r Center for Technological Development in Health   (Brazil)

^s ONTARIO INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Canada)

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Author keywords

E cigarettes; global; income classification; nicotine vaping products (NVPs); smoking; international; regulations; policies; survey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; BANGLADESH; BRAZIL; CANADA; CHINA; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALAYSIA; MALE; MARKETING; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NEW ZEALAND; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC POLICY; SMOKING; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; URUGUAY; VAPING; ZAMBIA;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; BANGLADESH; BRAZIL; CANADA; CHINA; COMMERCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEMS; ENGLAND; EX-SMOKERS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALAYSIA; MALE; MARKETING; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NEW ZEALAND; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC POLICY; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SMOKERS; UNITED STATES; URUGUAY; VAPING; ZAMBIA;

EID: 85061771038     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/add.14558     Document Type: Article

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