We've trained our computers to do some of the reading for you. Inspired by the World Health Organization's
MPOWER framework, articles are grouped
according to their primary subject:
Advertising
Articles on promotions, sponsorships, and marketing of tobacco through media.
Age
Articles on age restrictions for purchasing or using tobacco, such as minimum age limits.
Air
Articles on efforts to prevent tobacco use in indoor spaces or designated areas, including vaping.
Agriculture
Articles on tobacco farming and cultivation.
Criminal Justice
Articles on crime, policing, and criminal prosecution related to tobacco products.
Entertainment
Articles on tobacco use by celebrities, in movies, or other entertainment forms.
Environment
Articles on the environmental impact of tobacco, such as pollution from cigarette butts.
Flavor
Articles on flavored tobacco products, including bans, usage, and reviews.
Industry
Articles on industry activities, including financial reports and mergers.
Nicotine
Articles on regulations and enforcement regarding nicotine levels in tobacco products.
Packaging
Articles on plain packaging and/or graphic warnings on tobacco products.
Prevalence
Articles on tobacco use statistics and trends, including user demographics.
Prices
Articles on tobacco product taxes and minimum price regulations.
Quitting
Articles on cessation methods, products, and programs, including cessation statistics.
Health Warnings
Articles on dangers, diseases, and health risks associated with tobacco use.
Retail
Articles on issues involving the point-of-sale for tobacco products, including online.
Uncategorized
We only label an article when we are very confident about its content or its content falls within
the above categories"
Search allows you to filter articles based on words or phrases. By default the search
box returns articles that match all of the provided words, but can support other
advanced search operators like OR.
electronic cigarette
This search will return articles that contain both
"electronic" and "cigarette"
electronic OR cigarette
This search will return articles that contain either
"electronic" or "cigarette" (or both)
"electronic cigarette"
This search will return only articles with the exact
phrase "electronic cigarette"
("electronic cigarette" OR ecig) AND
taxes
This search will return articles that contain either the
exact phrase “electronic cigarette” or "ecig" (or both) and the word
"taxes"
Sentinels are estimated in real time by comparing observed volumes of news coverage with expected
volumes of news coverage. The above image presents a simplification of the method from a single time
series of news coverage. At present, sentinels are events where news coverage is two standard deviations
greater than what was expected for a given country or subject.