A5072629309- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Media Influence and Health
- Social Media in Health Education
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Social Media and Politics
- Media Studies and Communication
- Consumer Market Behavior and Pricing
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
- Respiratory and Cough-Related Research
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
- Coffee research and impacts
- Computational and Text Analysis Methods
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Wine Industry and Tourism
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Digital Marketing and Social Media
University of Chicago
2017-2025
Chicago Department of Public Health
2024
National Opinion Research Center
2019-2024
Faculty of Public Health
2020
While national surveys showed declines in e-cigarette use the USA between 2015 and 2016, recent reports indicate that JUUL, a sleekly designed looks like USB drive, is increasingly being used by youth young adults. However, extent of JUUL's growth its marketing strategy have not been systematically examined.A variety data sources were to examine JUUL retail sales promotion. Retail store scanner capture other major brands for period 2011-2017. A list JUUL-related keywords was identify tweets...
Public health organizations are increasingly turning to social media as a channel for campaign dissemination, these platforms can provide access “hidden” or at-risk audiences such populations of color and youth. However, few studies systematically assess the effects campaigns in competitive communication environment characterized by an influx sophisticated tobacco product marketing. The objective current study is investigate how content source features Twitter messages about truth ®...
Tobacco content on Twitter (X) generally opposes regulation. Although a near real-time data source of the public’s response to prominent events heightens allure extrapolating public sentiment from content, tobacco policy platform may be more indicative industry-affiliated top users. We examined 2 years discussion at user level ( N = 3,159,807 posts) September 2019 July 2021. sampled 100 most followed, amplified (retweets), influential (H index), and connected (betweenness centrality) users...
Tobacco product advertising has been shown to reach youth and promote initiation. This study assessed trends in e-cigarette expenditures the USA during 2014-2018, overall by manufacturer media type.Data came from Kantar Media, which provides information on US expenditures, including for e-cigarettes. Advertising were estimated as dollar amount spent companies purchase space print, television, Internet, radio outdoors. Dollar amounts adjusted 2017 dollars. Trends 2014-2018 analysed using...
Menthol cigarettes are used disproportionately by African American, female, and adolescent smokers. Twitter is also minority younger populations, providing a unique window into conversations reflecting social norms, behavioral intentions, sentiment toward menthol cigarettes.Our purpose was to identify the content frequency of about cigarettes, including themes, user smoking status, other tobacco or substances, tweet characteristics, sentiment. We examined differences in cigarette prevalent...
In today's complex media environment, does coverage influence youth and young adults' (YYA) tobacco use intentions? We conceptualize the "public communication environment" effect mediators, then ask whether over time variation in exogenously measured from mass social sources predicts daily YYA cigarette smoking intentions a rolling nationally representative phone survey (N = 11,847 on 1,147 days between May 2014 June 2017). Past week anti-tobacco pro-tobacco content Twitter, newspapers,...
Background The tobacco industry has spent millions of dollars promoting racialised narratives against the US Food and Drug Administration’s recently announced ban on menthol as a characterising cigarette flavour. This research investigates in online discourse following ban’s announcement. Methods Tweets users responding to April 2022 announcement were content analysed examine influence affiliates potentially organic African-American/Black (AA/B) users. Next we investigated extent which was...
As media exposure can influence people's opinions and perceptions about vaping smoking, analyzing the valence of content tobacco products (ie, overall attitude toward tobacco, cigars, electronic cigarettes, etc.) is an important issue. This study advances field by a large amount multiple across six different sources.From May 2014 to December 2017, we collected all English-language items that U.S. young people might see from mass websites (long-form) social (Twitter YouTube). We used...
Nicotine pouch products are an emerging and rapidly growing smokeless tobacco (ST) category in the USA. Little is known about promotional strategies media channels used to advertise this ST or extent which marketing differ from promote 'conventional' (eg, snuff). We describe nature, timing of expenditures related conventional, snus newer product advertising on print, broadcast internet media.Advertising were collected using Kantar Media's 'Stradegy' tool, provides data including dollars...
Media content can shape people's descriptive norm perceptions by presenting either population-level prevalence information or descriptions of individuals' behaviors. Supervised machine learning and crowdsourcing be combined to answer new, theoretical questions about the ways in which normative form evolve through repeated, incidental exposure mentions emanating from media environment. Applying these methods, this study describes tobacco e-cigarette trends over 37 months an examination a...
Objective As a remedy to committing fraud and violating civil racketeering laws, in November 2017, four major tobacco companies were court-ordered develop disseminate corrective statements regarding smoking health risks using mass media channels. We aimed describe the nature, timing, reach of exposure court-mandated industry advertising campaign on social, broadcast print media. Methods Data from used measure potential messages. Keyword rules collect campaign-related posts Twitter Firehose...
Exposure to media content can shape public opinions about tobacco. Accurately describing is a first step showing such effects. Historically, analyses have hand-coded tobacco-focused texts from few sources which ignored passing mention coverage and social sources, could not reliably capture over-time variation. By using combination of crowd-sourced automated coding, we labeled the population all e-cigarette other tobacco-related (including cigarettes, hookah, cigars, etc.) ‘long-form texts’...
Objectives: Industry, policymakers, researchers, and others have interest in social media, assuming that they influence – or reflect individual behavior, despite limited supporting research. Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) emerged the United States past decade alongside strong media presence, making ENDS relevant for examining this issue. In study, we examined monthly ENDS-related Twitter activity (tweet volume) relation to purchasing among purchasers. Methods: Data from 2105...
In April 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced its intention to ban sale of menthol cigarettes cigars. Decades research support premise that a will reduce initiation disparities in tobacco-related disease among smokers. The tobacco industry opposed such policy worked for decades shape public opposition. Social media discourse can inform our understanding opinion about proposed guide communication strategies implementation.
Importance The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Loan Repayment Program (LRP) expansion in fiscal year (FY) 2019 intended to improve access medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) by adding more clinicians who could prescribe buprenorphine. However, some still face barriers prescribing, which may vary between rural and nonrural areas. Objective To examine the growth buprenorphine prescribing NHSC Medicaid beneficiaries during LRP describe challenges that persist Design, Setting,...
The marketing of cigars, little cigars and cigarillos (CLCCs) cigar wraps is under-regulated understudied in the USA. To describe strategies CLCC manufacturers vendors used to advertise their products across channels, we systematically tracked expenditures from January 2017 July 2022.
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Twitter is an important avenue through which tobacco regulation evolves in the public consciousness. That said, prior research has identified spread of mis and dis-information regarding products on a possibly disproportionate influence e-cigarette advocates platform taking anti-regulatory stance. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> To examine most influential users discussing Twitter. <title>METHODS</title> We used keyword filter (F1 = .91) to identify N=3,159,807...