Tobacco control policies discussed on social media: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe the scope of published literature about tobacco-related policy discussions from social media data and discuss implications for tobacco control policy and future research.

Data sources

PubMed, Medline, CINAHL and Web of Science were searched on 20 November 2023, using search terms for social media, tobacco, and policy. The search was limited from 2005 to 2023.

Study selection

After removing duplicates, 2 authors reviewed 1118 articles. Those found to be irrelevant based on title (1078) and abstract (18) review were removed.

Data extraction

Data included study descriptions (eg, policy discussed, social media platform and number of posts), study characteristics (eg, methodology, sentiment analysis (propolicy, antipolicy, neutral policy and un

SUBMITTER: Dobbs P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12032063 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature