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. 2022 Mar 29;8(3):e25697. doi: 10.2196/25697

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)


Stop vaping and smoking to protect health 201,142 (31.20) vape, vaping, lung, smoke, get, go, people, stop, cancer, health

New e-cigarette flavor use among friends 158,593 (24.60) vape, new, ude, level, link, case, dear_ncan, space_nasking, use, friend

Single Juul pod equals a pack of cigarettes 153,435 (23.80) juul, hit, be, pod, say, still, stare, go, iterally, single

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)


Ban on flavored tobacco products due to lung disease 231,119 (32.90) vaping, vape, cigarette, smoking, product, flavor, ban, quit, lung, people

Ways to buy vaping products 174,920 (24.90) vape, would, buy, get, think, shop, go, need, take, look

Time to stop vaping and smoking 167,192 (23.80) smoke, time, vape, juul, stop, early, good, hit, read, drink

Epidemic of teenager vaping 129,258 (18.40) vape, kid, school, new, vapefam, high, top, epidemic, give, vaper
After the implementation (n=994,486)


Vaping and smoking have risks to get COVID-19 354,037 (35.60) vape, vaping, smoking, smoke, want, could, know, risk, covid, people

Buy Juul products through shipping 225,748 (22.70) vape, juul, get, shop, keep, still, flavor, product, sure, ship

Intention to stop vaping 210,831 (21.20) take, vape, stop, late, note, dah, photo, see, guy, friend

Vaping and corona virus can cause respiratory disease 202,875 (20.40) go, lung, vape, virus, people, young, bro, respiratory, disease, affect