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Characterizing California licensure status and tobacco user experience with adverse events using Yelp data

Various tobacco vendors, including alternative tobacco product sellers, are listed on the popular crowdsourced business listing platform Yelp. Yelp is used to rate and choose tobacco, electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) goods/services and includes self-reporting of user experiences with shop...

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Autores principales: Nali, Matthew C., Purushothaman, Vidya, Li, Jiawei, Mackey, Tim K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8814643/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35141123
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101720
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description Various tobacco vendors, including alternative tobacco product sellers, are listed on the popular crowdsourced business listing platform Yelp. Yelp is used to rate and choose tobacco, electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) goods/services and includes self-reporting of user experiences with shops and products. We cross-referenced California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA) licensed tobacco, vape, and head shop retail stores with publicly available Yelp business listings to identify licensed and unlicensed stores in California. We extracted metadata associated with store accounts and analyzed user comments and ratings for discussion of tobacco-related complaints and adverse events. We detected a total of 3,717 shops that were categorized as tobacco/vape/head shops on Yelp and by cross-referencing with CDTFA data, licensed businesses accounted for 49.5% (n = 1,841), licensed individual retailers 31.6% (n = 1,174), and suspected unlicensed storefronts 18.9% (n = 702). Businesses and individuals with a state tobacco retail license received a higher average rating from Yelp users (3.86 out of 5) compared to unlicensed shops (3.57) (p < 0.001). Additionally, 4,682 unique comments about licensed businesses, 1,535 unique comments about individual retailers, and 560 unique comments about unlicensed vendors were reviewed, with themes including discussion about defective and counterfeit products and adverse events including coughing, difficulty breathing and reports of hospitalization detected. In contrast, comments about licensed stores predominantly discussed customer service issues. Close to one-fifth of tobacco, vape and/or head shops reviewed on Yelp were not in CDTFA’s licensure database. Overall self-reported tobacco user experiences appeared to differ in content and severity based on whether an establishment was licensed. These results have the potential to identify unauthorized stores and adverse events associated with their tobacco and vaping products or services.
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spelling pubmed-88146432022-02-08 Characterizing California licensure status and tobacco user experience with adverse events using Yelp data Nali, Matthew C. Purushothaman, Vidya Li, Jiawei Mackey, Tim K. Prev Med Rep Regular Article Various tobacco vendors, including alternative tobacco product sellers, are listed on the popular crowdsourced business listing platform Yelp. Yelp is used to rate and choose tobacco, electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) goods/services and includes self-reporting of user experiences with shops and products. We cross-referenced California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA) licensed tobacco, vape, and head shop retail stores with publicly available Yelp business listings to identify licensed and unlicensed stores in California. We extracted metadata associated with store accounts and analyzed user comments and ratings for discussion of tobacco-related complaints and adverse events. We detected a total of 3,717 shops that were categorized as tobacco/vape/head shops on Yelp and by cross-referencing with CDTFA data, licensed businesses accounted for 49.5% (n = 1,841), licensed individual retailers 31.6% (n = 1,174), and suspected unlicensed storefronts 18.9% (n = 702). Businesses and individuals with a state tobacco retail license received a higher average rating from Yelp users (3.86 out of 5) compared to unlicensed shops (3.57) (p < 0.001). Additionally, 4,682 unique comments about licensed businesses, 1,535 unique comments about individual retailers, and 560 unique comments about unlicensed vendors were reviewed, with themes including discussion about defective and counterfeit products and adverse events including coughing, difficulty breathing and reports of hospitalization detected. In contrast, comments about licensed stores predominantly discussed customer service issues. Close to one-fifth of tobacco, vape and/or head shops reviewed on Yelp were not in CDTFA’s licensure database. Overall self-reported tobacco user experiences appeared to differ in content and severity based on whether an establishment was licensed. These results have the potential to identify unauthorized stores and adverse events associated with their tobacco and vaping products or services. 2022-01-27 /pmc/articles/PMC8814643/ /pubmed/35141123 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101720 Text en © 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8814643/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35141123
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101720
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