Modeling Public Sentiments About JUUL Flavors on Twitter Through Machine Learning

Malik, Arshad Nawaz; Khan, Muhammad Irfan; Karbasian, Habib; Nieminen, Marko; Ammad-ud-din, Muhammad; Khan, Suleiman A.

doi:10.1093/ntr/ntab098

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“…N-grams connected sequences of n items (words) from a given sample of text or speech (Broder et al, 1997). We examined top unigrams, bigrams, and trigrams and found that the trigrams were the most interpretable for salient content themes, consistent with previous social media tobacco research (Benson et al, 2020; Czaplicki, Kostygina, et al, 2020; Malik et al, 2021; N. Silver et al, 2022).…”

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confidence: 74%

Deciphering Influence on Social Media: A Comparative Analysis of Influential Account Detection Metrics in the Context of Tobacco Promotion

Kresovich,

Norris,

Carter

et al. 2024

Social Media + Society

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Influencer marketing spending in the United States was expected to surpass $6 billion in 2023. This marketing tactic poses a public health threat, as research suggests it has been utilized to undercut decades of public health progress—such as gains made against tobacco use among adolescents. Public health and public opinion researchers need practical tools to capture influential accounts on social media. Utilizing X (formerly Twitter) little cigar and cigarillo (LCC) data, we compared seven influential account detection metrics to help clarify our understanding of the functions of existing metrics and the nature of social media discussion of tobacco products. Results indicate that existing influential account detection metrics are non-harmonic and time-sensitive, capturing distinctly different users and categorically different user types. Our results also reveal that these metrics capture distinctly different conversations among influential social media accounts. Our findings suggest that public health and public opinion researchers hoping to conduct analyses of influential social media accounts need to understand each metric’s benefits and limitations and utilize more than one influential account detection metric to increase the likelihood of producing valid and reliable research.

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confidence: 74%

Deciphering Influence on Social Media: A Comparative Analysis of Influential Account Detection Metrics in the Context of Tobacco Promotion

Kresovich,

Norris,

Carter

et al. 2024

Social Media + Society

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“…The e-cigarette products in the market usually offer a very wide variety of flavoring agents mixed with nicotine, which is one of the biggest health concerns of e-cigarettes ( Rambaran et al, 2019 ; Malik et al, 2021 ). Here, we aim to evaluate whether the social functioning is modified by ENDS with a flavoring compound.…”

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confidence: 99%

Menthol Flavor in E-Cigarette Vapor Modulates Social Behavior Correlated With Central and Peripheral Changes of Immunometabolic Signalings

Tian

et al. 2022

Front. Mol. Neurosci.

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The use of electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) has been increasing dramatically worldwide. More than 8,000 flavors of e-cigarettes are currently marketed and menthol is one of the most popular flavor additives in the electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS). There is a controversy over the roles of e-cigarettes in social behavior, and little is known about the potential impacts of flavorings in the ENDS. In our study, we aimed to investigate the effects of menthol flavor in ENDS on the social behavior of long-term vapor-exposed mice with a daily intake limit, and the underlying immunometabolic changes in the central and peripheral systems. We found that the addition of menthol flavor in nicotine vapor enhanced the social activity compared with the nicotine alone. The dramatically reduced activation of cellular energy measured by adenosine 5′ monophosphate-activated protein kinase (AMPK) signaling in the hippocampus were observed after the chronic exposure of menthol-flavored ENDS. Multiple sera cytokines including C5, TIMP-1, and CXCL13 were decreased accordingly as per their peripheral immunometabolic responses to menthol flavor in the nicotine vapor. The serum level of C5 was positively correlated with the alteration activity of the AMPK-ERK signaling in the hippocampus. Our current findings provide evidence for the enhancement of menthol flavor in ENDS on social functioning, which is correlated with the central and peripheral immunometabolic disruptions; this raises the vigilance of the cautious addition of various flavorings in e-cigarettes and the urgency of further investigations on the complex interplay and health effects of flavoring additives with nicotine in e-cigarettes.

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“…E-cigarette products in the market are usually offer a very wide variety of flavoring agents mixed with nicotine, which is one of the biggest health concern for e-cigarettes [36, 37]. We here aim to evaluate whether the rewarding effects of ENDS can be modified by flavoring compound in e-cigarette.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comparison of chronic aerosol inhalation with combustible cigarette and e-cigarette on the psychiatric behaviors and neuroimmune profile in mice

Xu,

Ren,

Jing

et al. 2023

Preprint

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With the worldwide use of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) as a substitution for tobacco, the effects of e-cigarette vapor exposure on human health have been investigated. However, the comparison of long-term effects of aerosol inhalation with combustible cigarette and e-cigarette on the psychiatric behaviors has not been fully revealed. The present study examines the distinct effects of combustible cigarette and e-cigarette on anxiety, depression, cognition, and social behaviors. Here we found that the combustible cigarette induced the higher level of anxiety after long-term inhalation compared to the e-cigarettes with or without the tobacco flavor. Since the mechanism of action on the psychiatric behaviors entails the alterations on the neuroimmune-sensors and principal regulators such as glial cells, we further profiled the alterations of microglia and astrocytes by chronic inhalation of combustible tobacco cigarette, specifically the negative correlations between the IBA-1 level in the locus coeruleus (LC) and the latency to nest in VLT; as well as the GFAP level in LC and the open arm time in EPM were observed. Our current data provided an insight into the less impact of e-cigarettes on the anxiety-like behaviors and neuroimmune activation compared to combustible tobacco cigarettes which is not related to the flavor in e-cigarette, and the modulation on the neuroimmune signals in LC could be a therapeutic target for smoking-related anxiety.

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Modeling Public Sentiments About JUUL Flavors on Twitter Through Machine Learning

Cited by 15 publications

References 28 publications

Deciphering Influence on Social Media: A Comparative Analysis of Influential Account Detection Metrics in the Context of Tobacco Promotion

Deciphering Influence on Social Media: A Comparative Analysis of Influential Account Detection Metrics in the Context of Tobacco Promotion

Menthol Flavor in E-Cigarette Vapor Modulates Social Behavior Correlated With Central and Peripheral Changes of Immunometabolic Signalings

Comparison of chronic aerosol inhalation with combustible cigarette and e-cigarette on the psychiatric behaviors and neuroimmune profile in mice

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