Determining whether weight status mediates the association between number of cigarettes smoked per day and all-cause mortality among US adults who smoke cigarettes

• Luis Miguel Mestre ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: luis.mestre@yale.edu

  Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Public Health- Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7636-8133

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• Roger S. Zoh,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Public Health- Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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• Cydne Perry,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Applied Health Sciences, Indiana University School of Public Health- Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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• Julia Fukuyama,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Computing and Engineering Department of Statistics, Indiana University School of Informatics, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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• Maria A. Parker

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

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University School of Public Health- Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9763-1129

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