Perception of the Food and Drug Administration Electronic Cigarette Flavor Enforcement Policy on Twitter: Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

On January 2, 2020, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released the electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) flavor enforcement policy to prohibit the sale of all flavored cartridge-based e-cigarettes, except for menthol and tobacco flavors.

Objective

This research aimed to examine the public perception of this FDA flavor enforcement policy and its impact on the public perception of e-cigarettes on Twitter.

Methods

A total of 2,341,660 e-cigarette-related tweets and 190,490 FDA flavor enforcement policy-related tweets in the United States were collected from Twitter before (between June 13 and August 22, 2019) and after (between January 2 and March 30, 2020) the announcement of the FDA flavor enforcement policy. Sentiment analysis was conducted to detect t

SUBMITTER: Lu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9006136 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature