Sociodemographic factors associate with tobacco use among rural population of Maharashtra
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
Background: Tobacco use is the single greatest cause of preventable death globally. Tobacco use is a major public health challenge in India with 275 million adults consuming different tobacco products. India is also the second largest consumer of tobacco in the world, second only to China. An environmental tobacco smoke, or second hand smoke, has been shown to cause adverse health effects in people of all ages. Hence the present study was conducted mainly to find out Sociodemographic factor associated with tobacco use. Objective: To study socio-demographic factors associated with tobacco use. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted during 2016 in a field practice area of medical college. The study included 400 family All the adult population between age group 10 to 75 year were interviewed as per predesigned, pre-tested and semi-structured questionnaire in local language. Total 3252 rural population interviewed for tobacco use. Results: Overall prevalence of tobacco use found in this study was 63.16%.All socio-demographic factors which we taken under study influence tobacco use that was statistically significant. Conclusions: Though various legislation ban use of tobacco still tobacco use were significantly higher as found in our study. So effective measure should be directed and policy measure should be implemented effectively in order to decrease overall use.
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Bahattare V N, Lohakpure V R
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