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Reactions on Twitter towards Australia's proposed import restriction on nicotine vaping products: a thematic analysis
- Source :
- Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Vol 45, Iss 6, Pp 543-545 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2021.
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Abstract
- Objective: In June 2020, the Australian Government announced that personal importation of nicotine vaping products (NVP) would be prohibited, pending a 12‐month classification and regulation review by the Therapeutic Goods Administration. This brief report examines the themes of responses on Twitter to this announcement. Methods: Simple random sampling was used to retrieve tweets containing keywords from 19 to 26 June 2020. Tweets were manually coded and descriptive statistics calculated for themes and policy position. Results: The vast majority of the 1,168 tweets were anti‐policy. Themes included: criticism towards government (59.8%), activism against NVP restriction (38%), potential adverse consequences (30.8%) and support for NVP restriction (1.4%). Tweets that identified potential adverse consequences of NVP restriction cited: smoking relapse for individuals currently using NVPs (75.6%); the impact of policy enforcement (8.6%); illicit market (8.3%); panic buying (3.6%); difficulty obtaining prescriptions (2.8%); and impacts on NVP businesses (2.8%). Conclusion: Tweets predominately objected to the policy announcement. Approximately three‐quarters of tweets that cited potential adverse consequences of the policy mentioned smoking relapse as their primary concern. Implications for public health: User‐generated content on Twitter was primarily used to lobby against the proposed policy, which was subsequently amended.
- Subjects :
- Nicotine
Government
medicine.medical_specialty
e‐cigarette
attitudes
Descriptive statistics
Vaping
Public health
Australia
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
regulation
Advertising
Panic buying
Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems
Policy enforcement
medicine
Humans
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
Medical prescription
Thematic analysis
Psychology
Social Media
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13260200
- Volume :
- 45
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....50243f99c12218cd99d2fd74dca009f2