scholarly journals Campus Smoking Policies and Smoking-Related Twitter Posts Originating From California Public Universities: Retrospective Study (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua S Yang ◽  
Raphael E Cuomo ◽  
Vidya Purushothaman ◽  
Matthew Nali ◽  
Neal Shah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tobacco Use ◽  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
California State University ◽  
University Of California ◽  
State University ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Campus Policy ◽  
Smoking Policies ◽  
Positive Sentiment ◽  
Chi Square Tests

BACKGROUND The number of colleges and universities with smoke- or tobacco-free campus policies has been increasing. The effects of campus smoking policies on overall sentiment, particularly among young adult populations, are more difficult to assess owing to the changing tobacco and e-cigarette product landscape and differential attitudes toward policy implementation and enforcement. OBJECTIVE The goal of the study was to retrospectively assess the campus climate toward tobacco use by comparing tweets from California universities with and those without smoke- or tobacco-free campus policies. METHODS Geolocated Twitter posts from 2015 were collected using the Twitter public application programming interface in combination with cloud computing services on Amazon Web Services. Posts were filtered for tobacco products and behavior-related keywords. A total of 42,877,339 posts were collected from 2015, with 2837 originating from a University of California or California State University system campus, and 758 of these manually verified as being about smoking. Chi-square tests were conducted to determine if there were significant differences in tweet user sentiments between campuses that were smoke- or tobacco-free (all University of California campuses and California State University, Fullerton) compared to those that were not. A separate content analysis of tweets included in chi-square tests was conducted to identify major themes by campus smoking policy status. RESULTS The percentage of positive sentiment tweets toward tobacco use was higher on campuses without a smoke- or tobacco-free campus policy than on campuses with a smoke- or tobacco-free campus policy (76.7% vs 66.4%, <i>P</i>=.03). Higher positive sentiment on campuses without a smoke- or tobacco-free campus policy may have been driven by general comments about one’s own smoking behavior and comments about smoking as a general behavior. Positive sentiment tweets originating from campuses without a smoke- or tobacco-free policy had greater variation in tweet type, which may have also contributed to differences in sentiment among universities. CONCLUSIONS Our study introduces preliminary data suggesting that campus smoke- and tobacco-free policies are associated with a reduction in positive sentiment toward smoking. However, continued expressions and intentions to smoke and reports of one’s own smoking among Twitter users suggest a need for more research to better understand the dynamics between implementation of smoke- and tobacco-free policies and resulting tobacco behavioral sentiment.

scholarly journals Characterizing Self-Reported Tobacco, Vaping, and Marijuana-Related Tweets Geolocated for California College Campuses

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raphael E. Cuomo ◽  
Vidya L. Purushothaman ◽  
Jiawei Li ◽  
Cortni Bardier ◽  
Matthew Nali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
California State University ◽  
Smoking Bans ◽  
State University ◽  
Smoking Behaviors ◽  
Positive Sentiment ◽  
And Behavior

Introduction: College-aged youth are active on social media yet smoking-related social media engagement in these populations has not been thoroughly investigated. We sought to conduct an exploratory infoveillance study focused on geolocated data to characterize smoking-related tweets originating from California 4-year colleges on Twitter.Methods: Tweets from 2015 to 2019 with geospatial coordinates in CA college campuses containing smoking-related keywords were collected from the Twitter API stream and manually annotated for discussions about smoking product type, sentiment, and behavior.Results: Out of all tweets detected with smoking-related behavior, 46.7% related to tobacco use, 50.0% to marijuana, and 7.3% to vaping. Of these tweets, 46.1% reported first-person use or second-hand observation of smoking behavior. Out of 962 tweets with user sentiment, the majority (67.6%) were positive, ranging from 55.0% for California State University, Long Beach to 95.8% for California State University, Los Angeles.Discussion: We detected reporting of first- and second-hand smoking behavior on CA college campuses representing possible violation of campus smoking bans. The majority of tweets expressed positive sentiment about smoking behaviors, though there was appreciable variability between college campuses. This suggests that anti-smoking outreach should be tailored to the unique student populations of these college communities.Conclusion: Among tweets about smoking from California colleges, high levels of positive sentiment suggest that the campus climate may be less receptive to anti-smoking messages or adherence to campus smoking bans. Further research should investigate the degree to which this varies by campuses over time and following implementation of bans including validating using other sources of data.

scholarly journals Student Tobacco Use Behaviors on College Campuses by Strength of Tobacco Campus Policies

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (7) ◽  
pp. 747-753 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melinda J. Ickes ◽  
Amanda T. Wiggins ◽  
Mary Kay Rayens ◽  
Ellen J. Hahn
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Tobacco Use ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
State University ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Campus Policy ◽  
Tests Of Association ◽  
Use Behavior

Purpose: To examine the association between strength of policy and self-reported tobacco use behavior, controlling for demographic characteristics, polytobacco use, knowledge of campus tobacco policy, and perceived policy compliance by others. Design: Cross-sectional, online survey. Setting: Ten participating State University of New York (SUNY) campuses; 5 with designated smoking/tobacco use areas and 5 with 100% tobacco-free policies. Subjects: Convenience sample of students from SUNY campuses: only tobacco users (N = 576 students) included for analysis. Measures: Items assessing tobacco use behaviors on campus, policy knowledge, and observation of others using tobacco on campus. Analysis: T tests and chi-square tests of association used to compare responses between tobacco users across campuses. Generalized estimating equations modeling used to evaluate predictors of tobacco use on campus; model estimated with students nested within campus. Results: Those on campuses without a comprehensive policy were more likely to report (in the past week) having seen others smoke on campus (98% vs 69%, P < .001), having personally smoked on campus (65% vs 36%, P < .001), and seeing others use tobacco products on campus (88% vs 67%, P < .001), compared to those on tobacco-free campuses. Conclusion: Tobacco-free campus policies provide numerous protective factors for tobacco users and nonusers. However, compliance strategies are imperative for intended policy success.

The Children’s Digital Media Center @ Los Angeles

2012 ◽  
pp. 64-76
Author(s):  
Kaveri Subrahmanyam ◽  
Adriana Manago
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
California State University ◽  
University Of California ◽  
State University ◽  
Chat Rooms ◽  
Media Center ◽  
The University

The Children’s Digital Media Center @ Los Angeles studies young people’s interactions with digital media – with a focus on the implications of these interactions for their offline lives and long-term development. Founded by Professor Patricia Greenfield, Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA, the Center is a collaborative effort of researchers at the UCLA and the California State University, Los Angeles, USA. CDMC@LA researchers have been at the forefront of research on children’s and adolescents’ use of media ranging from early media forms such as television and video games to more recent ones including various applications on the Internet such as chat rooms, social networking sites, and YouTube. This entry presents an overview of the Center – its history, researchers and collaborators, research focus, and major contributions.

Cognitive Informatics

2011 ◽  
pp. 327-329
Author(s):  
Du Zhang ◽  
Witold Kinsner ◽  
Jeffrey Tsai ◽  
Yingxu Wang ◽  
Philip Sheu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
California State University ◽  
University Of California ◽  
State University ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Cognitive Informatics ◽  
International Conference ◽  
University Of Calgary ◽  
University Of Manitoba ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Ieee International Conference

The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI’05) was held during August 8th to 10th 2005 on the campus of University of California, Irvine. This was the fourth conference of ICCI [Kinsner et al. 05]. The previous conferences were held at Calgary, Canada (ICCI’02) [Wang et al. 02], London, UK (ICCI’03) [Patel et al. 03], and Victoria, Canada (ICCI’04) [Chan et al. 04], respectively. ICCI’05 was organized by General Co-Chairs of Jeffrey Tsai (University of Illinois) and Yingxu Wang (University of Calgary), Program Co-Chairs of Du Zhang (California State University) and Witold Kinsner (University of Manitoba), and Organization Co- Chairs of Philip Sheu (University of California), Taehyung Wang (California State University, Northridge), and Shangping Ren (Illinois Institute of Technology).

scholarly journals What’s behind OA2020? Accelerating the transition to open access with introspection and repurposing funds

2018 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Rachael Samberg ◽  
Richard A. Schneider ◽  
Anneliese Taylor ◽  
Michael Wolfe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Open Access ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
The United States ◽  
California State University ◽  
University Of California ◽  
State University ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
International Effort

In 2017, four University of California (UC) campuses took a public stance on accelerating the transition to open access (OA) by endorsing the Open Access 2020 (OA2020) initiative’s Expression of Interest (EOI). OA2020 is an international effort to convert the existing corpus of scholarly journals from subscription-based access to OA. In March 2017, when the first three UC campuses—UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis, and UC-San Francisco—endorsed,1,2 there had been only one U.S. signatory institution (California State University-Northridge, having endorsed in July 2016). Six months later in September 2017, another UC campus, Merced, added its affirmation. As of this writing, these five California universities remain the only OA2020 EOI signatories from the United States.3

Knowledge, Attitude and Behaviour of Tobacco Chewers Towards Oral Health Visiting Dental Institution in Dhule City, Maharashtra

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
A Bhatsange ◽  
EP Meshram ◽  
Karibasappa LNU ◽  
A Waghamare ◽  
S Lalitha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oral Health ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Tobacco Use ◽  
Smokeless Tobacco ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Public Health Problem ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Chi Square Tests

ABSTRACT Objective Tobacco use is a growing global public health problem. The adverse effects of tobacco use on health are well known. Smokeless tobacco is found to be as addictive and harmful as smoking. The objective of study was to assess tobacco use, awareness and attitudes towards tobacco and its control in adult population visiting dental institution for various dental problems in Dhule city. Material and methods A cross-sectional questionnaire based study was conducted among outpatients of dental institution in Dhule city. Data regarding the knowledge, form of tobacco used, frequency, duration and attitude towards stopping its consumption were collected. Statistical analysis was carried out using descriptive statistics and chi-square tests with Yates correction using Statistical software package(SPSS) version 19. Results Out of 100 tobacco chewers, 83% were males and 17% were females. Forty five percent of tobacco users thought that tobacco affects aesthetically and functionally. Chi-square tests were applied to analyse categorical data. There was statistically no significant (p<0.05) association between age groups and gender, with respect to knowledge and attitude of tobacco consumption. Conclusion Despite being aware about risk of having multiple oral health problems, a major proportion of respondents were using smokeless tobacco. However study participants were reluctant to quit the tobacco habit in spite of knowledge and awareness towards its adverse effects on oral and general health.

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