Guillory Jamie, Trigger Sarah, Brophy Jenna, Ross Ashley, Lane Stephanie, Kim Annice, Nonnemaker James, Liu Sherry T, Snyder Kimberly, Delahanty Janine
RTI International, Dublin, Ireland.
Office of Science, Center for Tobacco Products, Silver Spring, MD, United States.
Front Commun (Lausanne). 2024;9:1348158. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2024.1348158. Epub 2024 Sep 16.
On January 2, 2020, the FDA announced a policy focused in part on prioritizing enforcement of flavored (other than tobacco- or menthol-flavored) cartridge-based electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) without premarket authorization.
We used a query to identify Reddit conversations relevant to the policy from January 2 to May 6, 2020. Our sample included 576 posts (46 posts and 530 accompanying comments). Two analysts coded posts for mentions of use behaviors (e.g., switching, quitting), purchasing behaviors (e.g., purchasing from retailer new to the user), and flavored products. We summarized frequencies of coded data and provided illustrative quotes.
Only 21.0% (121/576) of posts mentioned use behavior. Switching behavior was the most common use behavior mentioned (50.4%, 61/121). Most switching behavior posts focused on ENDS-related switching (91.8%, 56/61). The most common ENDS-related switching behaviors mentioned were switching to an open tank (45.9%, 28/61) or device with refillable pods/cartridges (44.3%, 27/61); 8.2% (5/61) mentioned switching to disposables. Just 15.5% (89/576) of posts mentioned purchasing behavior, with the most common being purchasing from a retailer new to the user (32.6%, 29/89). Only 6.8% (39/576) of posts mentioned specific flavors.
Reddit posts about the policy commonly discussed switching to non-cartridge-based ENDS products, such as open tank systems or disposable devices, and purchasing products from different online sources that were still selling these products. Findings suggest that publicly available Reddit data can complement data from traditional sources (e.g., surveys, sales) to understand potential unintended consequences associated with policies by exploring the public's reactions.
2020年1月2日，美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）宣布了一项政策，部分重点是优先加强对未经上市前批准的调味（非烟草或薄荷醇口味）基于烟弹的电子尼古丁传送系统（ENDS）的执法力度。
我们通过查询来识别2020年1月2日至5月6日期间Reddit上与该政策相关的对话。我们的样本包括576个帖子（46个帖子及530条附带评论）。两名分析人员对帖子中提及的使用行为（如转换、戒烟）、购买行为（如从用户新接触的零售商处购买）和调味产品进行编码。我们总结了编码数据的频率并提供了示例引用。
只有21.0%（121/576）的帖子提及使用行为。转换行为是提及最多的使用行为（50.4%，61/121）。大多数转换行为帖子关注的是与ENDS相关的转换（91.8%，56/61）。提及最多的与ENDS相关的转换行为是转换到开放式储液罐（45.9%，28/61）或带有可再填充烟弹/烟仓的设备（44.3%，27/61）；8.2%（5/61）提及转换到一次性产品。只有15.5%（89/576）的帖子提及购买行为，最常见的是从用户新接触的零售商处购买（32.6%，29/89）。只有6.8%（39/576）的帖子提及特定口味。
关于该政策的Reddit帖子普遍讨论了转换到非基于烟弹的ENDS产品，如开放式储液罐系统或一次性设备，以及从仍在销售这些产品的不同在线来源购买产品。研究结果表明，公开可用的Reddit数据可以补充来自传统来源（如调查、销售）的数据，通过探索公众反应来了解与政策相关的潜在意外后果。
