Initial experimentation with tobacco is associated with subsequent tobacco use patterns among youth in the United States

• Omar El-Shahawy ,

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

  * E-mail: omar.elshahawy@nyulangone.org

  Affiliations American Heart Association Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3342-6377

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• Kandi L. Walker,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations American Heart Association Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

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• Allison M. Groom,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations American Heart Association Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, American Heart Association, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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• Thomas J. Payne,

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

  Affiliations American Heart Association Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

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• Lindsay K. Tompkins,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations American Heart Association Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

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• Anshula Kesh,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations American Heart Association Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, American Heart Association, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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• Robyn Landry,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations American Heart Association Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, American Heart Association, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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• Jack Pfeiffer,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

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• Aida L. Giachello,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations American Heart Association Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

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• Thanh-Huyen T. Vu,

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

  Affiliations American Heart Association Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5069-4886

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• Jennie Z. Ma,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations American Heart Association Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America

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• Rose Marie Robertson,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations American Heart Association Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, American Heart Association, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

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• Sasidhar Gunturu,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, BronxCare Health System, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Michael J. Blaha,

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

  Affiliations American Heart Association Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Joy L. Hart

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations American Heart Association Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science, Dallas, Texas, United States of America, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America

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