E-cigarette use in the European Union: millions of smokers claim e-cigarettes helped them quit.

Addiction

UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

Published: March 2017

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