Open AccessNews coverage of the E-cigarette, or Vaping, product use Associated Lung Injury (EVALI) outbreak and internet searches for vaping cessation
Author(s) -
Eric C. Leas,
Alicia L. Nobles,
Theodore L. Caputi,
Mark Dredze,
Shu Hong Zhu,
Joanna E. Cohen,
John W. Ayers
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
tobacco control
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.715
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1468-3318
pISSN - 0964-4563
DOI - 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-055755
Subject(s) - outbreak , medicine , electronic cigarette , demography , smoking cessation , advertising , environmental health , business , virology , sociology , pathology
In the latter half of 2019, an outbreak of pulmonary disease in the USA resulted in 2807 hospitalisations and 68 deaths, as of 18 February 2020. Given the severity of the outbreak, we assessed whether articles during the outbreak era more frequently warned about the dangers of vaping and whether internet searches for vaping cessation increased.