The concept of exposure when selecting comparison groups for determining individual susceptibility to addiction to cigarette smoking

• Indiara W. Henn,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate Program in Dentistry, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

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• Luciana R. A. Alanis,

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

  Affiliation Graduate Program in Dentistry, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

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• Adriana Modesto,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Validation

  Affiliation Departments of Oral Biology and Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

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• Alexandre R. Vieira

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: arv11@pitt.edu

  Affiliations Graduate Program in Dentistry, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil, Departments of Oral Biology and Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3392-6881

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