Pattern of Tobacco Consumption and Participants Perception in Relation to Anti-Tobacco Policies among Undergraduate Students in Mangalore
Journal Title: National Journal of Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 9, Issue 8
Abstract
Introduction: WHO has estimated that India has the second largest number of smokers in the world af-ter china and is the third largest producer of tobacco in the worl. New WHO report on the global to-bacco epidemic called “The MPOWER Package” reveals the evi-dence based strategies to be fol-lowed by member countries to con-trol tobacco epidemic. This study was conducted to assess the percep-tions in relation to tobacco policy MPOWER measures among under graduate students – Mangalore. Methods: This was a cross sectional study was conducted among 400 randomly selected undergraduate students in Mangalore. Data was obtained by using a pre tested, structured questionnaire. Results: Out of 400 individuals par-ticipated. Majority 183(45.8%) be-longed to MBBS Course. Among the study group, 112 (28%) were current tobacco users and 47 (12%) were past users. Among tobacco users majority (98.1%) used tobacco in cigarette smoking form followed by chewing (1.9%). 64.2% of the current users were not in favour of raising tax on tobacco products, difference in opinion is found to be statistical-ly significant (p=0.001). Conclusion: Tobacco use is a signif-icant problem among the male stu-dents population. It was also found that tobacco users demonstrated greater resistance to anti tobacco policy as compared with non-users.
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Vinayak J Kempaller, K G Kiran, Sanjeev Badiger, Shruthi M Shetty, Usha Rani S P
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