Juhan Lee

Biographic Data

ID6540829
NAMEJuhan Lee
GIVEN NAMESJuhan
FAMILY NAMELee
SIGNATURELEE J
AFFILIATIONSAlbert Einstein College of Medicine
ORCID0000-0003-0860-3327
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Sexual Identity as a Moderator of the Association Between Serious Psychological Distress and E-Cigarette Use Among US Adults, 2021–2023

    Juhan Lee, Maria A ParkerARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2026

    Background Compared to adults without serious psychological distress (SPD), adults with SPD have higher e-cigarette use (i.e., nicotine vaping), and both SPD and vaping vary by sexual identity. This study examined whether sexual identity modified the association between SPD and e-cigarette use in a nationally representative US adult sample.Methods Data included adults from the 2021–2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH; N = 139,524).…

  • Understanding Associated Factors for Iqos Use Among US Adults

    Juhan Lee, Delvon T MattinglyARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2025

    BACKGROUND: IQOS, the leading global brand of heated tobacco products (i.e., nicotine delivery systems that heat tobacco at lower temperatures than combustible tobacco products to produce nicotine-containing aerosols for inhalation), is scheduled to resume sales in the United States in 2025. Amid ongoing debates about health effects, understanding the prevalence of IQOS use and the factors associated with it is essential for developing prevention…

  • Higher Prescription Tranquilizer Misuse Among Bisexual Individuals in the United States, 2021–2023

    Juhan Lee, Jennifer Ahlquist et al.ARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2025

    Background Prescription tranquilizer misuse poses negative health outcomes including respiratory distress and overdose. Given the higher prevalence of substance use by sexual minority individuals, assessing the prevalence and motives of prescription tranquilizer misuse in this group is a priority. This study examined prescription tranquilizer misuse by sexual identity using a US nationally representative dataset.Methods We used the adult sample f…

  • Association Between Exposure to LGBTQ-Targeted Tobacco Marketing and Tobacco Use Behaviors Among US Young Adults

    Juhan Lee, Grace Kong et al.ARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2025

    Background A risk factor for tobacco use among sexual and gender minority people is exposure to tobacco marketing. This study aimed to assess exposure to tobacco marketing by sexual and gender identity via general venues (e.g., bars/clubs, newspapers/magazines), determine the frequency of targeted marketing via LGBTQ venues, and examine how exposure to tobacco marketing in LGBTQ venues relates to tobacco use among sexual and gender minority young…

  • Identification and Classification of Images in e-Cigarette-Related Content on TikTok

    Juhan Lee, Dhiraj Murthy et al.ARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2025

    Background Previous studies identified e-cigarette content on popular video and image-based social media platforms such as TikTok. While machine learning approaches have been increasingly used with text-based social media data, image-based analysis such as image-clustering has been rarely used on TikTok. Image clustering can identify underlying patterns and structures across large sets of images, enabling more streamlined distillation and analysi…

  • Remediated marketing

    Kellen Sharp, Marzieh Babaeianjelodar et al.ARTICLEInformation Communication & Society2025

    Big Tobacco and other stakeholders, such as vape shops and smaller e-cigarette manufacturers, have adapted traditional tobacco marketing techniques to digital platforms. Warning labels are essential for informing consumers about the potential harms of tobacco use, including e-cigarettes. However, in a rapidly changing digital landscape, social media platform policies often lag behind, leaving digital marketing largely unchecked. This has allowed …

  • Tobacco and Cannabis Co-use by HIV Status Among United States Adults

    Open AccessJuhan Lee, Yin Ai-tian et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2025

    Tobacco and cannabis use are prevalent among adults with HIV and co-use is associated with drug dependence and negative health outcomes such as lung disease. This study examined the co-use of tobacco and cannabis by HIV status overall and by sociodemographics. Data came from the adult sample from the 2021-2023 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Adjusted multinomial logistic regressions were performed on tobacco cannabis co-use by HIV status,…

  • Content Analysis of YouTube Videos Related to E-Cigarettes and Covid-19

    Juhan Lee, Rachel R Ouellette et al.ARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2024

    BACKGROUND: E-cigarettes are frequently promoted on social media and portrayed in ways that are attractive to youth. While the COVID-19 pandemic significantly affected people's lives, less is known about how the pandemic influenced e-cigarette-related marketing and information on social media. This study examined how e-cigarettes were portrayed on youtube, one of the most popular social media platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: We se…

  • Adolescents and Young Adults Use of Social Media and Following of e-Cigarette Influencers

    Juhan Lee, Rachel R Ouellette et al.ARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2024

    Background With high rates of both e-cigarette and social media use among adolescents and young adults (AYAs), social media influencers who promote e-cigarettes are particularly concerning but are understudied. We examined the association between AYAs’ use of 11 different social media platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube) and exposure to social media e-cigarette influencers.Objectives From November 2022 to February 20…

  • Understanding e-cigarette content and promotion on YouTube through machine learning

    Grace Kong, Alex Sebastian Schott et al.ARTICLETobacco Control2022

    Our findings indicate that on YouTube videos accessible to youth, a variety of e-cigarette products are featured through diverse videos themes, with discount/sales. The findings highlight the need to regulate the promotion of e-cigarettes on social media platforms

  • Changes in Recall to E-Cigarette Advertisement Exposure among Florida Youth, 2016–2019

    Juhan Lee, Andy S L Tan et al.ARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2021

    Introduction The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported increases in exposure to e-cigarette ads among US middle and high school students from 2014–2016. This study examines changes in exposure to e-cigarette ads by source among youth in Florida. Methods: We analyzed Florida Youth Tobacco Survey (FYTS) data from 2016–2019 (n = 149,407). We calculated the weighted prevalence of exposure to ads by source (on radio, TV, internet, billbo…

  • Poly-Tobacco Use among Young Adult Waterpipe Smokers

    Muhammad W Darawad, Mary Rezk‐Hanna et al.ARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2020

    Introduction There is a tendency of waterpipe smokers to advance their practice toward concurrent use (poly-tobacco use) of other tobacco products and nicotine delivery systems. This study investigated poly-tobacco use among waterpipe smokers, and its effect on their quit intention.Methods Descriptive cross-sectional design was utilized to recruit a convenience sample of university students who used waterpipe in three East Mediterranean countries…

  • Asymmetry of the group context effect on delay discounting

    Open AccessRichard Yi, Juhan Lee et al.ARTICLEJournal of Behavioral Decision…2019References: 1

    Binary choice delay discounting tasks require participants to indicate preference between smaller, immediate, and larger, delayed rewards. Previous research indicates that when the delayed reward is shared with others, the delayed outcome is preferred compared with when the outcomes are for the self only, resulting in lower rates of delay discounting. The present series of studies sought to replicate and extend this finding. Study 1 compared dela…