About the Authors

Ellen Boakye

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, The American Heart Association Tobacco Regulation and Addiction Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

Omar El Shahawy

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The American Heart Association Tobacco Regulation and Addiction Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America, Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America

Olufunmilayo Obisesan

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Omar Dzaye

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Albert D. Osei

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, MedStar Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

John Erhabor

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, The American Heart Association Tobacco Regulation and Addiction Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

S. M. Iftekhar Uddin

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, United States of America

Michael J. Blaha

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

mblaha1@jhmi.edu

Affiliations Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Baltimore, MD, United States of America, The American Heart Association Tobacco Regulation and Addiction Center, Dallas, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.