Funded by the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program through a High-Impact Pilot Grant at UC San Diego - School of Medicine, this project uses digital surveillance tools, big data, machine learning, and other interdisciplinary approaches to detect and characterize how the industry mobilizes on social media platforms to influence tobacco control policy
Meet our interdisciplinary research team members that were involved in this project from shared fields of public health, cognitive science, data science, and policy and legal analysis.
This section includes oral and poster presentations at conferences, news and media coverage, and other research dissemination activities
Purushothaman V, Cuomo RE, Li J, Nali M, Mackey T. Association between tobacco retail density and prevalence of smoking, vaping in California
Nali M, Purushothaman V, Qing X, Cuomo R, Mackey T. Characterizing and assessing compliance of online vaping sales in the context of state sales bans
Purushothaman VL, Cuomo RE, Li J, Nali M, Mackey TK . Variation in the association between smoking prevalence and number of tobacco retailers in California
Shah NA, Nali M, Bardier C, Li J, Mackey TK. Machine Learning Analysis for the Characterization of Vape/E-cigarette Marketing and Sales on Instagram
Purushothaman V, Cuomo RE, Leas E, Mackey T, Strong D. Longitudinal trends in tobacco and vape retail density in California (2015-2019)
Cuomo RE, Yang J, Purushothaman VL, Nali M, Li J, Mackey TK. Geospatial age disparities for California tobacco and vape shops
This section includes academic papers that have been published, are in press, are under review, or are in progress
This section includes project datasets that can be downloaded for further research purposes. Due to different restrictions, some of the data has had fields removed. For details please contact study team
Data file containing all CA licensed tobacco retail stores (2015-2020)
Data dictionary of data file for CA licensed retail store outlets
Dataset of voting record file by zip code for CA Proposition 56