# Understanding the Dynamics between Vaping and Cannabis Legalization Using Twitter Opinions

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11029 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.11029/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 7 of its 64 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 4 Jun 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 7 of 7)

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- [Stance Detection on Social Media: State of the Art and Trends](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.03644/) (2020)
- [Assessing Sentiment of the Expressed Stance on Social Media](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.03181/) (2019)
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- ["Trust me, I have a Ph.D.": A Propensity Score Analysis on the Halo Effect of Disclosing One's Offline Social Status in Online Communities](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.00105/) (2020)
- [Quantifying Community Characteristics of Maternal Mortality Using Social Media](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.06303/) (2020)
- [Quasi-experimental Designs for Assessing Response on Social Media to Policy Changes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.13783/) (2020)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Improving Data-driven Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation Under Structure Uncertainty](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.12689/) (2022)
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## Abstract (arXiv)

Cannabis legalization has been welcomed by many U.S. states but its role in escalation from tobacco e-cigarette use to cannabis vaping is unclear. Meanwhile, cannabis vaping has been associated with new lung diseases and rising adolescent use. To understand the impact of cannabis legalization on escalation, we design an observational study to estimate the causal effect of recreational cannabis legalization on the development of pro-cannabis attitude for e-cigarette users. We collect and analyze Twitter data which contains opinions about cannabis and JUUL, a very popular e-cigarette brand. We use weakly supervised learning for personal tweet filtering and classification for stance detection. We discover that recreational cannabis legalization policy has an effect on increased development of pro-cannabis attitudes for users already in favor of e-cigarettes.