Are smokers scared by COVID-19 risk? How fear and comparative optimism influence smokers’ intentions to take measures to quit smoking

• Hue Trong Duong,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Communication, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8742-1040

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• Zachary B. Massey,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Journalism, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3484-5768

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• Victoria Churchill,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0393-3212

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• Lucy Popova

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

  * E-mail: lpopova1@gsu.edu

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

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