Prevalence of tobacco use among 15-20 years old college students in Bengaluru city
| Autor: | Vasudha Sharma, Shweta Y Somasundara, SS Hiremath, Manjunath P Puranik |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Předmět: |
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty Government Tobacco use business.industry Addiction media_common.quotation_subject Global youth tobacco survey smokeless tobacco use tobacco use World health lcsh:RK1-715 Smokeless tobacco lcsh:Dentistry Pandemic medicine Population study business Demography Questionnaire study media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 24-29 (2015) |
| ISSN: | 2350-0484 2319-5932 |
| Popis: | Introduction: Tobacco use in children and adolescents is reaching pandemic levels. The World Health Organization predicts that India will have the fastest rate of rise in deaths attributable to tobacco in the productive years of adult life, as a consequence of an addiction acquired in youth. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire study based on global youth tobacco survey was undertaken to study the prevalence of tobacco use among 15-20 years old college students. A simple random sampling method was used to select the students from Government and Private schools and Colleges in Bengaluru city. Results: In the study population of 2399 in the age group of 15-20 years, 307 (12.8%) subjects reported use of cigarettes among whom 176 (7.3%) reported current use and 240 (10%) reported ever use of smokeless tobacco. Majority 226 (73.6%) belonged to private institutions and 81 (26.4%) to government institutions. About 41 (1.7%) were daily smokers. Conclusion: Prevalence of smoking was much higher among the private institution students as opposed to students of government institutions; also, it was observed that the percentage of smokeless tobacco users were higher in this age group when compared to cigarette smokers. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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