About the Authors

Rosemary J. Avery

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Motasem Kalaji

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Communication Studies, California State University, Northridge, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Jeff Niederdeppe

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America, Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Alan Mathios

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America, Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Michael Dorf

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Law School, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Sahara Byrne

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

Affiliation Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Amelia Greiner Safi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

alg52@cornell.edu

Affiliations Department of Communication, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America, Department of Public and Ecosystem Health, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States of America

Competing Interests

One of the co-authors, Alan Mathios, has received support on another project related to e-cigarettes which is funded by a grant to Cornell University from the Foundation for a Smoke Free World. No funds from this other grant were used in any way for this study. We have no additional statements of conflict of interest to disclose for any of the other co-authors. The authors have declared no other competing interests.