Vaping and anime: a growing area of concern.
Vaping and anime: a growing area of concern.
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DOI:
10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2021-057195
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发表时间:
2023-11
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影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
Stanton, Cassandra
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作者:
Wipfli, Heather Lynn;Kim, Minji;Vassey, Julia;Stanton, Cassandra
Anime, or Japanese animation which combines graphic art, characterisation and cinematography, is experiencing a global boom after having doubled its market size over the past decade. 1 The industry was valued at $23.5 billion in 2020 and is continuing to grow rapidly. Anime is popular among adolescents and young adults, who are targeted with content related to romantic attraction, teen relationships, depression and despair. 2 3 A 2020 survey in the USA found twice as many 18-year-olds to to 29-year-olds (27%) had a very favourable impression of anime as compared with 30-year-olds to 44-year-olds. 4 Notably, smoking by anime characters is not uncommon. Popular examples of anime smokers include Asuma Sarutobi from Naruto, Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop and Sanjo from One Piece. 5 Vaping by anime characters has yet to be systematically analysed, although a scene from Netflix’s original anime, Neo Yokio, produced in 2017 with talent that included Jaden Smith, Jude Law and Susan Sarandon, included a viral scene in which a character asks to, and then proceeds to use a vaping device (figure 1). Given anime’s growing popularity among teens worldwide, we investigated if and how tobacco companies, including those that exclusively sell e-cigarettes and other vape devices, are using anime to market vaping products, through an exploratory online search of ‘anime’,‘e-cigarettes’ and ‘vape’conducted in September 2021. We conducted the search on Duckduckgo. com, an independent search engine that does not store personal data and search history, to minimise bias from authors’ personal search history. We found numerous examples of strategies previously found to be effective in promoting tobacco use among adolescents and young adults, including linking products and behaviour to popular movies and video games; 6 7 using cartoon-based marketing; 8 and leveraging social media to market to youth. 9 We identified manufacturers branding their products after anime shows and characters; for example Yami Vapour is named after the character Yami in the show To Love-Ru, now steaming on Hulu. 10 We also found nicotine liquid named and marketed after popular anime shows and characters, including
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影响因子:
168.9
作者:
Dalton, MA;Sargent, JD;Heatherton, TF
通讯作者:
Heatherton, TF
影响因子:
4.3
作者:
Jackson KM;Janssen T;Gabrielli J
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影响因子:
120.7
作者:
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通讯作者:
MURRAY, D
DOI:
10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.04.003
发表时间:
2017-09
期刊:
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine
影响因子:
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作者:
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通讯作者:
Harrell MB
影响因子:
5.2
作者:
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通讯作者:
Malone, Ruth E.