Table 1

Description of the selected articles about tobacco control policies discussed on social media published by November 2023

Author/s name/s, year of publicationCountryTobacco control law/regulationPolicy levelPlatform# PostsData collection date/s
Allem et al, 202336USAFDA menthol flavour restrictionFederalTwitter104121 April 2022 – 5 May 2022
Chu et al, 20222USAFDA market ban of Puff BarFederalTwitter212313 July 2020 – 13 August 2020
Dobbs et al, 202238USAFederal tobacco 21FederalTwitter9551 September 2019 –31 December 2019
Dobbs et al, 2023a37USAFederal tobacco 21FederalTwitter11091 September 2019 –31 December 2019
Dobbs et al, 2023b39USAFederal tobacco 21FederalTwitter11131 September 2019 –31 December 2019
Feng et al, 201710USAIncrease California tobacco taxStateTwitter17 0991 January 2012 – 5 May 2012
Harris et al, 20146USAChicago City Council vote to regulate e-cigarettes as tobacco productsLocalTwitter6838 January 2014 – 15 January 2014
Hatchard et al, 201925UKUK Parliamentary vote to standardised tobacco packagingFederalTwitter513
525
27 October 2014 – 25 November 2014
21 January 2015 – 18 February 2015
Jun, 202040USAFDA authorisation of heated tobacco productFederalTwitter57428 April 2019 – 1 July 2019
Kirkpatrick et al, 202141USAFlavoured e-cigarette restrictionsFederalTwitter25001 May 2019 – 1 May 2020
Kostygina et al, 202242USAFlavour restriction lawsFederalInstagram113 3931 January 2019 – 31 December 2021
Lazard et al, 201743USAFDA regulatory authority of e-cigarettesFederalTwitter46291 May 2016 – 17 May 2016
Lou et al, 20233Australia and UKPolicy on e-cigarettes as a medical productFederalTwitter936820 September 20 21 – 31 December 2021
Lu et al, 202226USAE-Cigarette flavour restriction policy for cartridge-based productsFederalTwitter190 49013 June 2019 – 22 August 2019
2 January 2020 – 5 Feberuary 2020
6 February 2020 – 30 March 2020
Robertson et al, 202248WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control eighth Meeting of the Conference of PartiesInternationalTwitter90891 October 2018 – 9 October 2018
Silver et al, 202245USAFDA sales restriction of flavoured cartilage e-cigarette productsFederalReddit742901 May 2019 – 31 May 2020
Silver et al, 202344USAFDA premarket tobacco authorisation act deadlineFederalTwitter521 July 2020 – 30 November 2021
Sun et al, 202227USANew York State policy on flavoured e-cigarettesStateTwitter68 31813 June 2019 – 22 August 2019
1 October 2019 – 31 December 2019
Sun et al, 202146AustraliaProposed import restriction on nicotine vaping productsFederalTwitter116819 June 2020 – 26 June 2020
Xie et al, 202247USAFDA flavour restriction policyFederalTwitter1 027 13613 June 2019 – 31 July 2019
1 January 2020 – 5 February 2020
6 February 2020 – 12 October 2020
Yang et al, 20217USACalifornia public universities smoke-free and tobacco-free policiesLocalTwitter3962015
Zhou et al, 20234USAFDA proposed rule prohibiting menthol cigarettesFederalTwitter194128 April 2022– 27 May 2022
  • FDA, US Food and Drug Administration.