# David Watkins Back to [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/People/People|Lomborg People]] · [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/BjornLomborg-x-profile|@BjornLomborg]] · Topic: [[Topics/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate/Climate Change Science and Policy Debate|Climate Change Science and Policy Debate]] **Role:** Physician and health economist, University of Washington (Department of Medicine and Department of Global Health) - Lead author of Watkins, Ahmed & Pickersgill (2023), "Best Investments in Chronic, Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control in Low- and Lower–Middle-Income Countries", *Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis*, doi:[10.1017/bca.2023.25](https://doi.org/10.1017/bca.2023.25). This is one of the Copenhagen Consensus papers behind [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/Books/Best Things First|*Best Things First*]]. - It gives BCRs from 40 (trans-fat bans) to 100 (tobacco excise taxes), discounted at 8% through 2030. - Source of the tobacco-tax numbers in [[Authors/@BjornLomborg/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - BjornLomborg on Tobacco Taxes Returning $101 per Dollar (2026-07-05)|the Jul 5 analysis]].