Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) as part of GBD 2021 Tobacco Forecasting Collaborators were coauthors in “” published in The Lancet Public Health (Impact factor 25.4). The study estimated that in 2022, the global age-standardized smoking prevalence as 28·5% among males and 5·96% among females and projected it to decline in years to come provided the smoking policies are maintained.
