About the Authors

Constantine I. Vardavas

vardavas@hsph.harvard.edu

Affiliations Center for Global Tobacco Control, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Smoking and Lung Cancer Research Center, Hellenic Cancer Society, Athens, Greece, Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

Israel Agaku

Affiliation Center for Global Tobacco Control, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Evridiki Patelarou

Affiliations Smoking and Lung Cancer Research Center, Hellenic Cancer Society, Athens, Greece, Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

Nektarios Anagnostopoulos

Affiliation Smoking and Lung Cancer Research Center, Hellenic Cancer Society, Athens, Greece

Chrysanthi Nakou

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Aristotelio University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Vassiliki Dramba

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, General Hospital of Serres, Serres, Greece

Gianna Giourgouli

Affiliation Smoking and Lung Cancer Research Center, Hellenic Cancer Society, Athens, Greece

Paraskevi Argyropoulou

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Aristotelio University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Antonis Antoniadis

Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, General Hospital of Serres, Serres, Greece

Konstantinos Gourgoulianis

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, University of Thessaly, Thessaly, Greece

Despoina Ourda

Affiliation South Eastern European Research Center, Thessaloniki, Greece

Lambros Lazuras

Affiliation South Eastern European Research Center, Thessaloniki, Greece

Monique Bertic

Affiliation Center for Global Tobacco Control, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Christos Lionis

Affiliation Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

Gregory Connolly

Affiliation Center for Global Tobacco Control, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Panagiotis Behrakis

Affiliations Smoking and Lung Cancer Research Center, Hellenic Cancer Society, Athens, Greece, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

on behalf of the Hellenic Air Monitoring Study Investigators

Membership of the Hellenic Air Monitoring Study is provided in the Acknowledgments

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CIV MB GC PB. Performed the experiments: CIV EP NA CN VD GG PA AA KG DO LL CL. Analyzed the data: CIV IA EP PB. Wrote the paper: CIV IA EP NA CN VD GG PA AA KG DO LL CL MB GC PB.