About the Authors

Adriana Pérez

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

adriana.perez@uth.tmc.edu

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), School of Public Health, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), School of Public Health, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Arnold E. Kuk

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), School of Public Health, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Meagan A. Bluestein

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), School of Public Health, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Baojiang Chen

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), School of Public Health, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), School of Public Health, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Kymberle L. Sterling

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), School of Public Health, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Melissa B. Harrell

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), School of Public Health, Austin, Texas, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), School of Public Health in Austin Campus, Austin, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose except Dr. Harrell is a consultant in litigation involving the vaping industry. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.