ArticleJournal of risk and uncertainty2020
News that Takes Your Breath Away: Risk Perceptions During an Outbreak of Vaping-related Lung Injuries.
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- Differential impact of South Korea's 2019 E-cigarette advisory on adult tobacco product use: an interrupted time series analysis by product type and subgroup.BMC public health · 2026Article
- E-CIGARETTE FLAVOR RESTRICTIONS' EFFECTS ON TOBACCO PRODUCT SALES.American journal of health economics · 2026Article
- E-cigarette use and smoking-related disparities in England: an observational study using small area estimation and nonparametric regression.Harm reduction journal · 2026Observational
- Does timing matter? The role of health information shocks in measuring willingness to pay.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2025Article
- Media Reports and Knowledge of e-Cigarette or Vaping Use-Associated Lung Injury Among Adolescents in California: Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Contextualizing Changes in e-Cigarette Use During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic and Accompanying Infodemic ("So Much Contradictory Evidence"): Qualitative Document Analysis of Reddit Forums.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
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- Flavored E-Cigarette Sales Restrictions and Young Adult Tobacco Use.JAMA health forum · 2024Article
- Examining Perceptions of Uncertain Language in Potential E-Cigarette Warning Labels: Results from 16 Focus Groups with Adult Tobacco Users and Youth.Health communication · 2024Article
- Estimating the effects of tobacco-21 on youth tobacco use and sales.Journal of health economics · 2024Article
- Comparative risk perceptions of switching to JUUL vs. continued smoking and subsequent switching away from cigarettes: a longitudinal observational study.BMC psychology · 2023Observational
- Effects of E-Cigarette Minimum Legal Sales Ages on Youth Tobacco Use in the United States.Journal of risk and uncertainty · 2023Article
- The E-cigarette or Vaping Product Use-Associated Lung Injury Epidemic: Pathogenesis, Management, and Future Directions: An Official American Thoracic Society Workshop Report.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2023Article
- Young adult responses to taxes on cigarettes and electronic nicotine delivery systems.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2022Observational
- Challenges in communicating the benefits of switching from cigarettes to e-cigarettes: Responses from eight adult focus groups with varying smoking experience.Preventive medicine reports · 2022Article
- 'Give 'em the vape, sell 'em the pods': razor-and-blades methods of pod e-cigarette pricing.Tobacco control · 2022Article
- Analysis of state portrayals of the risks of e-cigarette use and the cause of the EVALI outbreak.Harm reduction journal · 2022Article
- US adult smokers' perceived relative risk on ENDS and its effects on their transitions between cigarettes and ENDS.BMC public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
We study the impact of new information on people's perceptions of the risks of e-cigarettes. In September 2019 the U.S. experienced an outbreak of e-cigarette, or vaping, associated lung injuries (EVALI). The EVALI outbreak created an information shock, which was followed by additional new information in a later CDC recommendation. We use data on consumer risk perceptions from two sets of surveys conducted before (HINTS survey data) and during the EVALI outbreak (Google Survey data). The empirical model examines changes in risk perceptions during the early crisis period when the CDC was warning consumers that they should avoid all vaping products and during a later period when the message was refined and focused on a narrower set of illegal vaping products that contain THC (the main psychoactive compound in marijuana). Econometric results suggest that the immediate impact of the first information shock was to significantly increase the fraction of respondents who perceived e-cigarettes as more harmful than smoking. As the outbreak subsided and the CDC recommendation changed to emphasize the role of THC e-cigarette products, e-cigarette risk perceptions were only partially revised downwards. Individuals who had higher risk perceptions showed a weaker response to the first information shock but were more likely to later revise their risk perceptions downwards. We conclude the paper by discussing the public policy issues that stem from having risk perceptions of e-cigarette relative to combustible cigarettes remain at these elevated levels where a substantial portion of consumers believe that e-cigarettes are more harmful than cigarettes.
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