Kavita Batra (Medicine) and Manoj Sharma (Social and Behavioral Health; Internal Medicine) as part of GBD 2021 Tobacco Forecasting Collaborators were coauthors in “Forecasting the effects of smoking prevalence scenarios on years of life lost and life expectancy from 2022 to 2050: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021” 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.
