About the Authors
- Ahmad El-Hellani
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: elhellani.1@osu.edu
Affiliations Division of Environmental Health Sciences, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Center for Tobacco Research, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Elyana Hanna
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Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Center for the Study of Tobacco Products, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
- Mehak Sharma
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Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Reagan Blohowiak
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Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Phillip Joseph
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Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- Tore Eid
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Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America
- Haleh Nadim
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Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America
- Rachel El-Hage
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Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Center for the Study of Tobacco Products, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
- Rola Salman
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Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Center for the Study of Tobacco Products, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
- Nareg Karaoghlanian
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Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Center for the Study of Tobacco Products, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
- Ayomipo Adeniji
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Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Division of Environmental Health Sciences, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America, Center for Tobacco Research, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
- Sally Salam
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Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Center for the Study of Tobacco Products, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
- Farid Talih
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Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Clinical Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
- Martine Elbejjani
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Clinical Research Institute & Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
- Alison Breland
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Center for the Study of Tobacco Products, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
- Thomas Eissenberg
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Center for the Study of Tobacco Products, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
- Alan Shihadeh
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Center for the Study of Tobacco Products, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
- Stephen R. Baldassarri
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Yale Center for the Study of Tobacco Product Use and Addiction, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Program in Addiction Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, Washington, DC, United States of America
- Soha Talih
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Mechanical Engineering, Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Center for the Study of Tobacco Products, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Competing Interests
AS and TEissenberg are paid consultants in litigation against the tobacco and EC industry and are named on a patent for a device that measures the puffing behavior of EC users and another patent application for a smoking cessation intervention. TEissenberg is also named on a patent application for a smartphone app that determines EC device and liquid characteristics. All other authors declare no conflict of interest. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.