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Language

English

Publication Date

8-7-2025

Journal

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

DOI

10.3233/SHTI251189

PMID

40776206

PMCID

PMC13222649

PubMedCentral® Posted Date

8-7-2026

PubMedCentral® Full Text Version

Author MSS

Abstract

Social media debates on e-cigarettes raise public health concerns due to evolving evidence and conflicting guidelines. We analyzed 25,127 vaping-related comments to explore how users discuss vaping-related topics. Our analysis revealed 25 topics grouped into three parent topics: positive effects of vaping, negative effects of vaping, and vaping-related news & information. Significant differences were observed in psycholinguistic characteristics with high emotional exchanges as positive and negative effects of e-cigarettes are debated. Our results can inform interventions promoting science literacy and misinformation resistance.

Keywords

Vaping, Humans, Social Media, Psycholinguistics, Peer Group, Health Literacy, Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems, Science literacy, social media, topic modeling, e-cigarettes

Published Open-Access

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