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Prevalence and Correlates of Tobacco Use: A Cross-Sectional Study from Rural Haryana, India


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1 Department of Community Medicine, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India
2 Department of Physiology, MMMC&H, Kumarhatti, Solan, H.P., India
3 Department of Pharmacology, MMMC&H, Kumarhatti, Solan, H.P, India
4 Department of Community Medicine, MMMC&H, Kumarhatti, Solan, Himachal Pardesh, India
5 WHO, India
     

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Tobacco use is today's major public health concern in our country, which can be largely reduced by primordial and primary prevention. According to NFHS III, 57% of men and 10.8% of women use any kind of tobacco in India. To determine the prevalence and correlates of tobacco use among the rural community of block Beri, district Jhajjar, Haryana. This cross-sectional study was carried out during the period of September 2012 to August 2013.Multistage random sampling was used in this study. A sample size of 1080 was included in the study Appropriate statistical tests were used for analysis. The overall prevalence of current tobacco use was found to be 26.9% (tobacco-smoking: 26.4%; tobacco-smokeless: 2.7%) and it was found to be higher among males as 46.7% (tobacco-smoking: 46.3%; tobacco-smokeless: 4.4%) than7.2% in females (tobacco-smoking: 6.5%; tobacco-smokeless: 0.9%). Our study confirmed the high burden of tobacco use in rural areas and reiterated the need to address these issues comprehensively as a part of NCD prevention and control strategy.

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Prevalence, Tobacco, Socio-Demographic, Rural, Haryana.
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Authors

R. B. Jain
Department of Community Medicine, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India
Anand Kumar Sharma
Department of Physiology, MMMC&H, Kumarhatti, Solan, H.P., India
Sami Magray
Department of Pharmacology, MMMC&H, Kumarhatti, Solan, H.P, India
Sumit Chawla
Department of Community Medicine, MMMC&H, Kumarhatti, Solan, Himachal Pardesh, India
Bharti
WHO, India
Inderjeet Singh
Department of Community Medicine, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India
Vikas Gupta
Department of Community Medicine, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India

Abstract


Tobacco use is today's major public health concern in our country, which can be largely reduced by primordial and primary prevention. According to NFHS III, 57% of men and 10.8% of women use any kind of tobacco in India. To determine the prevalence and correlates of tobacco use among the rural community of block Beri, district Jhajjar, Haryana. This cross-sectional study was carried out during the period of September 2012 to August 2013.Multistage random sampling was used in this study. A sample size of 1080 was included in the study Appropriate statistical tests were used for analysis. The overall prevalence of current tobacco use was found to be 26.9% (tobacco-smoking: 26.4%; tobacco-smokeless: 2.7%) and it was found to be higher among males as 46.7% (tobacco-smoking: 46.3%; tobacco-smokeless: 4.4%) than7.2% in females (tobacco-smoking: 6.5%; tobacco-smokeless: 0.9%). Our study confirmed the high burden of tobacco use in rural areas and reiterated the need to address these issues comprehensively as a part of NCD prevention and control strategy.

Keywords


Prevalence, Tobacco, Socio-Demographic, Rural, Haryana.