Public Perceptions of the Food and Drug Administration's Proposed Rules Prohibiting Menthol Cigarettes on Twitter: Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

On April 28, 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed rules that prohibited all menthol-flavored cigarettes and other flavored cigars to prevent the initiation of tobacco use in youth and reduce tobacco-related diseases and death.

Objective

The objective of this study was to investigate public perceptions of the FDA's proposed menthol cigarette rules on Twitter.

Methods

Through the Twitter streaming application programming interface, tobacco-related tweets were collected between April 28, 2022, and May 27, 2022, using a set of keywords, such as smoking, cigarette, and nicotine. Furthermore, 1941 tweets related to the FDA's proposed menthol cigarette rules were extracted. Based on 300 randomly selected example tweets, the codebook for the attitu

SUBMITTER: Zhou R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9960014 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature