Funding for this research was provided by:
Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC grant 11/818)
Article History
Received: 23 December 2017
Accepted: 5 March 2018
First Online: 5 April 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All participants gave online and then verbal consent to participate. Ethical approval for the study was obtained from the Ministry of Health, Health and Disability Ethics Committee (ethics number 15/STH/215).
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: No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors. As members of End Smoking NZ, the authors have each advocated for and written before in support of tobacco harm reduction. End Smoking NZ was a minor sponsor of the World Premiere of ‘A Billion Lives’ (a documentary on e-cigarettes).
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