Concept flavor e-cigarette unit sales in the U.S.: 2019-2022.

Introduction: Concept flavor e-cigarettes, defined as products with vague/ambiguous flavor (tobacco flavor and non-tobacco flavor) names, may limit the intended impact and enforcement of flavored tobacco restrictions. This study assessed trends in unit sales of concept flavor e-cigarettes in the U.S.

Examining the Peer-Reviewed Literature on Tobacco-Related Social Media Data: Scoping Review.

Introduction: Tobacco researchers have used social media data to examine tobacco industry marketing practices (eg, influencers), and to document user experience with tobacco products. This study summarized the literature that analyzed tobacco-related social media data, including domain, social media platform, tobacco product type, and themes of findings, among other variables.

Aims And Methods: PubMed, PsycINFO, Web of Science, and Communication Source were searched between 2004 and 2022.

Monitoring the Official YouTube Channels of E-Cigarette Companies: A Thematic Analysis.

Background: E-cigarette companies use YouTube to foster brand awareness, market their products, and interact with current and future tobacco users. However, research on the official YouTube channels of e-cigarette companies is limited. This study determined the themes of, and degree of user engagement with, videos posted to the official channels of e-cigarette companies on YouTube.

Describing Memes Referencing Vaping: Thematic Analysis.

Memes, images or videos with text overlay that embody a concept or belief about the contemporary society, are endemic to Internet culture, are popular among youth and diffuse rapidly across social media platforms. E-cigarettes and vaping have grown in popularity in the era of Internet culture however there is little research describing the intersection of memes and vaping. This is an important gap in the literature as memes may be part of the broader online e-cigarette information landscape that can normalize vaping among young people.

Tobacco promotion restriction policies on social media.

Tobacco promotion is prolific on social media, with each platform setting their own restrictions on tobacco promotion and sales. We evaluated the policies related to tobacco product promotion and sales on 11 sites that are popular with youth in May 2021: Discord, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, Snapchat, TikTok, Tumblr, Twitch, Twitter and YouTube. Nine of the 11 sites prohibited for tobacco products.

Economic loss attributable to cigarette smoking in the USA: an economic modelling study.

Background: Despite large geographical disparities in the prevalence of cigarette smoking across the USA, there is a paucity of state-level estimates of economic loss attributable to smoking to inform tobacco control policies at the national and state levels. We aimed to estimate the state-level economic loss attributable to cigarette smoking in the USA.

Methods: In this economic modelling study, we used a dynamic macroeconomic model of personal income per capita at the state level.

Spatial Analysis of Changes in Cigarette Sales in Massachusetts and Bordering States Following the Massachusetts Menthol Flavor Ban.

This cohort study examines changes in cigarette sales in Massachusetts and its bordering states following a comprehensive ban on menthol flavor in Massachusetts in 2020.

E-cigarette Marketing Expenditures in the United States From 2016 to 2021: Targeted Media Outlets Geared Toward People Who Are at Increased Risk for Tobacco Use.

Introduction: E-cigarette advertising exposure is linked to e-cigarette initiation and use. Thus, monitoring trends in e-cigarette advertising practices is important to understand e-cigarette use patterns observed over recent years.

Aims And Methods: E-cigarette advertising expenditures (January 2016-July 2021; Numerator Ad Intel) for 154 U.

Changes in Smoking Cessation-Related Behaviors Among US Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Importance: Smoking cessation is an urgent public health priority given that smoking is associated with increased risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes and other diseases. It is unknown how smoking cessation changed nationally during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: To investigate changes in smoking cessation-related behaviors in the US during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Relative Harm Perceptions of E-Cigarettes Versus Cigarettes, U.S. Adults, 2018-2020.

Introduction: It is unknown how U.S. adults' relative harm perceptions of E-cigarettes versus cigarettes and associated behaviors changed during the E-cigarette or vaping product use‒associated lung injury epidemic (late 2019) and COVID-19 pandemic (since early 2020).

Association Between Exposure to Tobacco Content on Social Media and Tobacco Use: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Importance: Exposure to tobacco-related content on social media may foster positive attitudes toward tobacco products and brands, and influence the likelihood of initiating or continuing use of tobacco, especially among adolescents and young adults.

Objective: To perform the first systematic review and meta-analysis, to our knowledge, on studies that examined the association between exposure to tobacco content on social media and lifetime tobacco use, past 30-day tobacco use, and susceptibility to use tobacco among never users.

Data Sources: Tobacco, social media, and marketing search terms were entered into online databases, including MEDLINE, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, and PsychINFO.

COVID-19 and Tweets About Quitting Cigarette Smoking: Topic Model Analysis of Twitter Posts 2018-2020.

Background: The risk of infection and severity of illness by SARS-CoV-2 infection is elevated for people who smoke cigarettes and may motivate quitting. Organic public conversations on Twitter about quitting smoking could provide insight into quitting motivations or behaviors associated with the pandemic.

Objective: This study explored key topics of conversation about quitting cigarette smoking and examined their trajectory during 2018-2020.

The impact of e-cigarette product place in music videos on susceptibility to use e-cigarettes among young adults: An experimental investigation.

Introduction: Product placement in music videos is a growing promotional strategy. This study examined the impact of e-cigarette product placement and imagery in music videos on susceptibility to use e-cigarettes among young adults.

Methods: A non-probability sample of young adults (18 to 24) in Southern California were recruited to participate in an experiment over Zoom.

Tobacco and cannabis use advertisements targeting adolescents and young adults on Snapchat in 2019.

Social media platforms offer opportunities for targeted health communication ads to improve tobacco and cannabis prevention efforts. This study described tobacco and cannabis-related ads targeted towards adolescents and young adults on Snapchat. Data comprised of publicly available tobacco (n = 70) and cannabis-related (n = 64) ads from Snapchat in 2019.

Identifying Health-Related Discussions of Cannabis Use on Twitter by Using a Medical Dictionary: Content Analysis of Tweets.

Background: The cannabis product and regulatory landscape is changing in the United States. Against the backdrop of these changes, there have been increasing reports on health-related motives for cannabis use and adverse events from its use. The use of social media data in monitoring cannabis-related health conversations may be useful to state- and federal-level regulatory agencies as they grapple with identifying cannabis safety signals in a comprehensive and scalable fashion.

Association of Cigarette Sales With Comprehensive Menthol Flavor Ban in Massachusetts.

This cohort study examines whether cigarette sales changed after Massachusetts banned menthol-flavored tobacco products.

Vaping and COVID-19: Insights for Public Health and Clinical Care from Twitter.

This study describes key topics of discussions on Twitter at the intersection of vaping and COVID-19 and documents public reactions to announcements from authoritative health agencies. Twitter posts containing vaping and COVID-19-related terms were collected from 1 December 2019 to 3 May 2020 ( = 23,103 posts). Text classifiers and unsupervised machine learning were used to identify topics in posts.

Association of teleworking and smoking behavior of U.S. wage and salary workers.

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a major shift in workspace from office to home. This report examined how telecommuting is related to smoking behavior of wage and salary workers.

Methods: Self-reported smoking behavior of 1,390 U.