“They’re thinking, well it’s not as bad, I probably won’t get addicted to that. But it’s still got the nicotine in it, so…”: Maturity, Control, and Socializing: Negotiating Identities in Relation to Smoking and Vaping—A Qualitative Study of Young Adults in Scotland
Author(s) -
Mark Lucherini,
Catriona Rooke,
Amanda Amos
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
nicotine and tobacco research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.338
H-Index - 113
eISSN - 1469-994X
pISSN - 1462-2203
DOI - 10.1093/ntr/ntx245
Subject(s) - disadvantaged , addiction , psychology , identity (music) , ambivalence , negotiation , nicotine , maturity (psychological) , smoking cessation , social psychology , young adult , tobacco control , developmental psychology , medicine , public health , sociology , psychiatry , political science , nursing , social science , physics , pathology , acoustics , law
To explore the understandings of and engagement with e-cigarettes, of young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds, and how these may have an impact on existing smoking identities.
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