Table 1.
Top topics related to e-cigarettes before and after the Food and Drug Administration flavor enforcement policy.
| Time frame and topic | Tokens, n (%) | Keywords | |||
| Before the announcement (n=644,686) |
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Stop vaping and smoking to protect health | 201,142 (31.20) | vape, vaping, lung, smoke, get, go, people, stop, cancer, health | ||
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New e-cigarette flavor use among friends | 158,593 (24.60) | vape, new, ude, level, link, case, dear_ncan, space_nasking, use, friend | ||
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Single Juul pod equals a pack of cigarettes | 153,435 (23.80) | juul, hit, be, pod, say, still, stare, go, iterally, single | ||
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Vaping leads to nicotine addiction for those who unlikely smoke | 131,516 (20.40) | smoking, cigarette, generation, whole, create, first, start, addiction, unlikely, statistically | ||
| Between the announcement and implementation (n=702,488) |
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Ban on flavored tobacco products due to lung disease | 231,119 (32.90) | vaping, vape, cigarette, smoking, product, flavor, ban, quit, lung, people | ||
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Ways to buy vaping products | 174,920 (24.90) | vape, would, buy, get, think, shop, go, need, take, look | ||
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Time to stop vaping and smoking | 167,192 (23.80) | smoke, time, vape, juul, stop, early, good, hit, read, drink | ||
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Epidemic of teenager vaping | 129,258 (18.40) | vape, kid, school, new, vapefam, high, top, epidemic, give, vaper | ||
| After the implementation (n=994,486) |
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Vaping and smoking have risks to get COVID-19 | 354,037 (35.60) | vape, vaping, smoking, smoke, want, could, know, risk, covid, people | ||
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Buy Juul products through shipping | 225,748 (22.70) | vape, juul, get, shop, keep, still, flavor, product, sure, ship | ||
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Intention to stop vaping | 210,831 (21.20) | take, vape, stop, late, note, dah, photo, see, guy, friend | ||
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Vaping and corona virus can cause respiratory disease | 202,875 (20.40) | go, lung, vape, virus, people, young, bro, respiratory, disease, affect | ||