Balancing Risks and Benefits of E-Cigarettes in the Real World

Joanna E Cohen1, Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin1, Thomas Eissenberg1

  • 1Joanna E. Cohen is with the Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin is with the Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Thomas Eissenberg is with the Department of Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. Thomas J. Gould is with the Department of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University, University Park. Micah L. Berman is with the College of Public Health and Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, Columbus. Aruni Bhatnagar is with the Department of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY. Tracey E. Barnett is with the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth. Eric Soule is with the College of Health and Human Performance, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. Lucy Popova is with the Department of Health Policy and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta. Andy S. L.  Tan is with the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Melissa D. Blank is with the Department of Psychology, West Virginia University, Morgantown. Pamela M. Ling is with the Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Richard O'Connor is with the Department of Health Behavior, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY.

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