Regulating Electronic Cigarettes: A Content Analysis of Indonesian News Articles

DOI

10.2991/ahsr.k.201203.007How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Vaping, Smoking, Regulation, Media framing, Content analysis

Abstract

Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are not harmless as stated by World Health Organization (WHO). Several countries have applied regulations on e-cigarette and some others have banned e-cigarette sell. Indonesia has applied tax on e-liquid but there is no comprehensive regulation on the devices. This study aimed to analyse how Indonesian Media portray e-cigarette regulation. This study used a quantitative content-analysis method in online news articles published by four most popular online news media in Indonesia from 2012 to 2017. The news articles were obtained from the media websites and Google Advance Search, resulted in 418 articles. The result showed that amongst all articles talking about electronic cigarettes, 26.6% articles (n=85) focusing on e-cigarettes regulations. Story about e- cigarette regulations is increasing significantly in articles that talk about domestic events over the studied period. Types of regulations related to e-cigarettes mentioned in the articles include simply calling for e-cigarette regulation (26.7%, taxes (25.7%), total ban (18.1%), smoke-free policies/vaping restriction (14.3%) and limiting access to teenagers/children (13.3%). In conclusion, Indonesian online news media often talk about regulations when portraying stories about electronic cigarettes. E-cigarette regulations mentioned in the articles are varied and mostly found in article with negative frame towards the devices.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zahratul Laili
AU  - Suci Puspita Ratih
AU  - Dien Anshari
AU  - Rita Damayanti
AU  - Hilal Salim Al Shamsi
AU  - Abdullah Ghthaith Almutairi
AU  - Sulaiman
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/04
TI  - Regulating Electronic Cigarettes: A Content Analysis of Indonesian News Articles
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Scientific Meeting on Public Health and Sports (ISMOPHS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 36
EP  - 40
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.201203.007
DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.201203.007
ID  - Laili2020
ER  -