About the Authors
- Constantine I. Vardavas
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* E-mail: 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
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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
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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
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Affiliation Smoking and Lung Cancer Research Center, Hellenic Cancer Society, Athens, Greece
- Chrysanthi Nakou
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Aristotelio University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Vassiliki Dramba
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Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, General Hospital of Serres, Serres, Greece
- Gianna Giourgouli
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Affiliation Smoking and Lung Cancer Research Center, Hellenic Cancer Society, Athens, Greece
- Paraskevi Argyropoulou
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Aristotelio University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Antonis Antoniadis
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Affiliation Department of Pulmonary Medicine, General Hospital of Serres, Serres, Greece
- Konstantinos Gourgoulianis
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Affiliation Department of Respiratory Medicine, University of Thessaly, Thessaly, Greece
- Despoina Ourda
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Affiliation South Eastern European Research Center, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Lambros Lazuras
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Affiliation South Eastern European Research Center, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Monique Bertic
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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
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Affiliation Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
- Gregory Connolly
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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
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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
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¶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.