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. 2022 Feb 21;2021:343–351.

Table 1: Distribution of annotation categories (4,351 annotations in total).

Annot. Type Annot. Subtype #Annotations Examples
Irrelevant Total Annotations 155 (3.56%)
Cannabis 86 (1.98%) vaping marijuana to help him with sleep.
Other 69 (1.59%) used vaporizer when sick with flu
Usage-unknown Total Annotations 1651 (37.95%)
Cessation-counseling
Empty-template Other
382 (8.78%)
13 (<1%)
871 (20.02%)
e-cigarettes may be bad for your health
electronic cigarette: Y/N
current tobacco user (excluding ecigs & hookah
Non-exclusive 3858 (8.84%) tobacco/ecig: yes
Active-user Total Annotations 1862 (42.79%)
Attempting-to-quit-ENDS 112 (2.57%) tapering off ecig
Tobacco-cessation-related
Cessation-counseling-pro Counseling-non-descriptive
929 (21.35%)
12 (<1%)
126 (2.90%)
smoked tobacco but recently switched to vaping
patient advised to continue ecig use smoking ecigs: education provided
Non-descriptive 683 (15.70%) smokes ecigs
Non-user Total Annotations 540 (12.41%)
Potential-user
Cessation-related Passive-exposure Non-descriptive
135 (3.10%)
29 (<1%)
8 (<1%)
368 (8.46%)
pt is planning on using ecig for cessation
pt not interested in using ecigs to quit girlfriend uses ecig
tobacco/ecig usage: No
Former-user Total Annotations 143 (3.29%) no longer vapes