JUUL the heartbreaker: Twitter analysis of cardiovascular health perceptions of vaping.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The public most frequently associates tobacco use solely with pulmonary health risks, despite heart disease being the leading cause of death in smokers. The health perceptions of e-cigarettes, especially cardiovascular health, have not been well studied. We aimed to evaluate the prevalence and health perceptions of tweets related to cardiovascular, pulmonary, and brain health - three organ systems for which tobacco use is a major disease risk factor.

Methods

We examined the cardiovascular, pulmonary, and brain health perceptions of vaping and JUUL on Twitter, followed by a content analysis of tweets pertaining to the cardiovascular risks. A Twitter firehose API scraped about 6.2 million publicly available tweets from 2015-2019 that contained vaping-related terms

SUBMITTER: Hong T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7791365 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature