Table 1.
Top topics related to e-cigarettes before and after the New York State flavor ban.
| Periods | Positive sentiment | Negative sentiment | |||
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Topics (% of tokens) | Keywords | Topics (% of tokens) | Keywords | |
| February 6, 2020, to May 17, 2020a (24,976 posts) |
Nicotine products and quitting (40.8) | vap, vape, nicotine, smoking, quit, cigarette, smoker, smoke, help, people, product, amp, tobacco, vaper, vaping | Teens and nicotine products (55.4) | vap, cigarette, nicotine, vape, amp, smoke, product, smoking, people, not, lung, quit, tobacco, teen, vaper | |
| Nicotine products and people behavior (36.1) | vape, juul, vap, get, go, smoke, good, not, be, make, pod, love, want, hit, do | Nicotine products and quitting (35.2) | juul, vape, get, go, vap, smoke, stop, pod, lose, not, be, fuck, shift, make, hit | ||
| May 18,2020, to June 30, 2020b (7206 posts) |
Nicotine products and quitting (47.4) | vape, vap, juul, smoke, get, not, good, nicotine, go, be, people, quit, do, cigarette, smoking | nicotine products and quitting (54.9) | vap, vape, nicotine, smoke, amp, cigarette, tobacco, smoking, not, people, say, quit, year, product, vaper | |
| Nicotine products and health (26.9) | vap, smoker, vaper, smoke, nicotine, smoking, vape, product, quit, amp, help, tobacco, worldvapeday, health, study | mint flavor vape in New York (30.1) | vape, juul, fuck, pod, cana, anything, get, mint, new_York, month, people, get_rid, hit, police_force, like_two | ||
| July 1,2020, to September 15, 2020c (13,246 posts) |
Nicotine products and people behavior (42.6) | vape, juul, get, vap, smoke, good, be, hit, go, not, make, amp, know, day, pen | Teens and nicotine products (48.3) | vap, stop, nicotine, white_people, pray, whole_time, downfall, mom_asking, vape, cigarette, smoke, smoking, vaper, tobacco, amp, teen | |
| Nicotine products and quitting (41.8) | vap, nicotine, vape, smoking, smoke, cigarette, quit, tobacco, smoker, product, map, vaping, vaper, not, help | Nicotine products and addiction (45.4) | vape, juul, get, vap, fuck, addict, go, smoke, drink, not, be, s, shit, pod, mad | ||
| September 16, 2020, to November 30, 2020d (14,455 posts) |
Nicotine products and quitting (64%) | vape, vap, nicotine, smoke, juul, cigarette, good, get, smoking, quit, amp, smoker, people, be, go | Teens and nicotine products (54.2) | vap, vape, nicotine, smoke, not, smoking, teen, cigarette, quit, people, tobacco, do, amp, smoker, vaper | |
| Nicotine products and people behavior (26%) | vape, smoke, xbox, blow, series, not, say, can, believe, get, buy, bottom, feel_proud, twitter, created_post | Nicotine products and people behavior (36.3) | vape, juul, vap, go, get, fuck, pen, ita, shit, hit, be, lose, bad, take, dona | ||
aBefore implementation of the New York State flavor ban.
bBetween the implementation of the New York State flavor ban and the online sales ban.
cShort term after the online sales ban.
dLong term after the online sales ban.