About the Authors

Ahmad Reza Hosseinpoor

hosseinpoora@who.int

Affiliation Department of Health Statistics and Information Systems, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Lucy Anne Parker

Affiliations Department of Public Health, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Alicante, Spain, CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Madrid, Spain

Edouard Tursan d'Espaignet

Affiliation Tobacco Free Initiative, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Somnath Chatterji

Affiliation Department of Health Statistics and Information Systems, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AH. Analyzed the data: AH. Wrote the paper: LAP. Provided input into writing the manuscript: AH ETdE SC.