About the Authors

Ahmad AlMulla

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Tobacco Control Center, WHO Collaborative Center, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Ravinder Mamtani

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Population Health, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Doha, Qatar

Sohaila Cheema

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Population Health, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Doha, Qatar

Patrick Maisonneuve

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, IEO Istituto Europeo di Oncologia IRCSS, Milan, Italy

Jamal Abdullah BaSuhai

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Tobacco Control Center, WHO Collaborative Center, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Gafar Mahmoud

Roles Project administration

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Tobacco Control Center, WHO Collaborative Center, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Silva Kouyoumjian

Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – original draft

SKouyoumjian@hamad.qa

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Tobacco Control Center, WHO Collaborative Center, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Competing Interests

None to declare.