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Concurrent Mentions of Vaping and Alcohol on Twitter: Latent Dirichlet Analysis

Concurrent Mentions of Vaping and Alcohol on Twitter: Latent Dirichlet Analysis

An estimated 14% of US high schoolers currently vape [2], while nearly one-third report consuming alcohol in the past 30 days [1]. Alcohol and vaping can often co-occur. A recent meta-analysis found that vaping was associated with a 6-fold increased odds of alcohol consumption as well as binge drinking or drunkenness [3].

Lynsie R Ranker, David Assefa Tofu, Manyuan Lu, Jiaxi Wu, Aruni Bhatnagar, Rose Marie Robertson, Derry Wijaya, Traci Hong, Jessica L Fetterman, Ziming Xuan

J Med Internet Res 2024;26:e51870

Social Media Exposure and Other Correlates of Increased e-Cigarette Use Among Adolescents During Remote Schooling: Cross-Sectional Study

Social Media Exposure and Other Correlates of Increased e-Cigarette Use Among Adolescents During Remote Schooling: Cross-Sectional Study

The survey items assessing changes in the frequency of use and concentration of e-cigarettes had the potential to directly demonstrate the impact of shelter-in-place by asking: “Overall, have you changed HOW MUCH you vape since the Shelter-in-Place rules?” and “Overall, has the STRENGTH of your vape changed since the Shelter-in-Place rules?”

Vira Pravosud, Pamela M Ling, Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, Valerie Gribben

JMIR Pediatr Parent 2024;7:e49779

Relationship Between Product Features and the Prices of e-Cigarette Devices Sold in Web-Based Vape Shops: Comparison Study Using a Linear Regression Model

Relationship Between Product Features and the Prices of e-Cigarette Devices Sold in Web-Based Vape Shops: Comparison Study Using a Linear Regression Model

The price distributions of vape pens and pod kits are similar: the lower quartile and median prices for vape pens and pod kits are almost identical. Price distribution of mod products from 5 US-based popular vape shops from April to August 2022 (mod device: n=229, mod kit: n=427). Price distribution of pod products from 5 US-based popular vape shops from April to August 2022 (pod device: n=8, pod kit: n=348).

Yanyun He, Qian Yang, Yousef Alish, Shaoying Ma, Zefeng Qiu, Jian Chen, Theodore Wagener, Ce Shang

JMIR Form Res 2024;8:e49276

Vaping: Public Health, Social Media, and Toxicity

Vaping: Public Health, Social Media, and Toxicity

Besides the impact on smoking behaviors, adolescents who vape can develop severe respiratory symptoms that may even require ventilation, and other symptoms, including gastrointestinal tract symptoms, coughing, and hypoxemia, can also arise throughout the body [5]. e-Cigarette use has become a worldwide public health issue that demands our attention.

Yehao Sun, Prital Prabhu, Dongmei Li, Scott McIntosh, Irfan Rahman

Online J Public Health Inform 2024;16:e53245

Social Network Analysis of e-Cigarette–Related Social Media Influencers on Twitter/X: Observational Study

Social Network Analysis of e-Cigarette–Related Social Media Influencers on Twitter/X: Observational Study

The first category is “vape advocates,” who provide educational content about e-cigarettes and aim to persuade smokers to switch from traditional cigarettes to e-cigarettes owing to multiple health benefits. The second category is “vape reviewers,” who tweet about their reviews of certain e-cigarette products/devices.

Runtao Zhou, Zidian Xie, Qihang Tang, Dongmei Li

JMIR Form Res 2024;8:e53666

A Global Health Survey of People Who Vape but Never Smoked: Protocol for the VERITAS (Vaping Effects: Real-World International Surveillance) Study

A Global Health Survey of People Who Vape but Never Smoked: Protocol for the VERITAS (Vaping Effects: Real-World International Surveillance) Study

Respiratory symptoms reported by a cohort of individuals who vape with no established history of CC smoking or other tobacco or nicotine product use will be compared against those reported by a cohort of matched controls with no established history of vaping, smoking, or use of any other tobacco products.

Jeffrey Zamora Goicoechea, Allison Boughner, Juan José Cirion Lee, Aman Mahajan, Kurt Yeo, Maris Sproga, Tasmin Patel, Claudio Saitta, Christopher Russell, Michael Coughlan, Pasquale Caponnetto, Riccardo Polosa

JMIR Res Protoc 2024;13:e54236

Assessing the Quality and Behavior Change Potential of Vaping Cessation Apps: Systematic Search and Assessment

Assessing the Quality and Behavior Change Potential of Vaping Cessation Apps: Systematic Search and Assessment

There is also concern that vaping is increasing the prevalence of nicotine addiction, and people who vape are three times as likely as those who do not take up tobacco smoking [3]. Young adults and teenagers disproportionally comprise the vaping population [6]. In Australia, 19.8% of people aged 18-24 years used e-cigarettes, compared with 8.9% in the general adult population [7].

Fiona McKay, Lilian Chan, Rebecca Cerio, Sandra Rickards, Phillipa Hastings, Kate Reakes, Tracey O'Brien, Matthew Dunn

JMIR Mhealth Uhealth 2024;12:e55177

Electronic Cigarette–Related Contents on Instagram: Observational Study and Exploratory Analysis

Electronic Cigarette–Related Contents on Instagram: Observational Study and Exploratory Analysis

Social media platforms, which have been widely used by e-cigarette companies and vape stores for marketing and promoting the sale of their products [15-17], are currently very popular in the United States. Online advertisements from e-cigarette companies and vape stores claim that e-cigarettes have multiple benefits, such as having smoking cessation functions, being more economical than smoking, being healthier than tobacco, and having multiple flavors as choices [18-20].

Yankun Gao, Zidian Xie, Li Sun, Chenliang Xu, Dongmei Li

JMIR Public Health Surveill 2020;6(4):e21963

E-Cigarette Promotion on Twitter in Australia: Content Analysis of Tweets

E-Cigarette Promotion on Twitter in Australia: Content Analysis of Tweets

A list of popular e-cigarette–related terms was developed based on peer-reviewed literature [29-34], trending Twitter hashtags, and frequently co-occurring hashtags (ie, hashtags that appeared in the same caption as the root term), which resulted in 15 keywords: cloudchasing, ecig (includes ecigarette/s), e-cig (includes e-cigarette/s), electroniccig (includes electroniccigarette/s), electronic cigarette (includes electronic cigarettes), eliquid, e-liquid, e-juice, vape (includes vaper and vapes), vaping, vapecommunity

Kahlia McCausland, Bruce Maycock, Tama Leaver, Katharina Wolf, Becky Freeman, Katie Thomson, Jonine Jancey

JMIR Public Health Surveill 2020;6(4):e15577