Open AccessDigital Detection for Tobacco Control: Online Reactions to the 2009 U.S. Cigarette Excise Tax Increase
Author(s) -
John W. Ayers,
Benjamin M. Althouse,
Kurt M. Ribisl,
Sherry Emery
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
nicotine and tobacco research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.338
H-Index - 113
eISSN - 1469-994X
pISSN - 1462-2203
DOI - 10.1093/ntr/ntt186
Subject(s) - excise , tobacco control , population , smoking cessation , medicine , baseline (sea) , demography , the internet , advertising , business , environmental health , public health , political science , computer science , world wide web , law , nursing , pathology , sociology
The Internet is revolutionizing tobacco control, but few have harnessed the Web for surveillance. We demonstrate for the first time an approach for analyzing aggregate Internet search queries that captures precise changes in population considerations about tobacco.
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