Electronic Cigarette Marketing Online: a Multi-Site, Multi-Product Comparison.
Kar-Hai ChuAnupreet K SidhuThomas W ValentePublished in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2015)
E-cigarette makers use different strategies to market their product and engage their users. There was no evidence of direct targeting of vulnerable populations, but the affordances of the different sites are exploited to best broadcast context-specific messages. We developed a viable method to study cross-site diffusion, although additional refinement is needed to account for how different types of digital media are used.