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Prevalence of Habitual Smoking and Alcoholism in Chennai Population
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NOR MASITAH MOHAMED, MANJARI CHAUDHARY, ARTHI BALASUBRAMANIAM
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Alcohol use and smoking habits are serious health problems that are closely linked together. They often develop concurrently and their close relationship is well established over the decades. However, the use of these abused psychoactive substances reported an unclear correlation of whether smokers are more vulnerable to alcohol abuse than non-smokers or instead, increase of alcoholics among smokers are influenced by heavy drinking habits. Attitudes towards alcohol and smoking are generally related to behavior, peer influence and parental factors. This study was carried out to find out the prevalence of habitual smoking and alcoholism in the Chennai population. Data collection was done in a dental university setting. A total of 1796 case records were reviewed individually. Excel tabulation and SPSS version 23 were used for data analysis. The following parameters were evaluated based on the dental records : age, gender, habit of smoking and alcohol use. 1796 case records were reviewed, among which 99.4% were males and 0.6% were females. 1777 patients (98.9%) were smokers and 19 (1.1%) were non-smokers with a high prevalence of smoking in males 98.3%. 2.3% respondents were current alcoholics of whom 100% were men, whereas 97.7% were non-alcoholics. 24 out 1796 respondents were men associated with both smoking habit and alcohol use. No records of female smokers in relation to the use of alcohol. There was a higher number of smokers between 21 and 30 ages as compared to other age groups. Majority of the alcoholics were in the age of 11 to 21 years old (52.3%). Among the 24 patients with both habits, 2 of them aged between 1 to 10 years and 22 were in the age groups of 11 to 20 years. There was significant difference between age groups and smoking and alcoholism, suggesting patients aged below 30 years were more prevalent with these habits. Within the limits of this study, the prevalence of habitual smoking and alcoholism exhibited more occurrences in male and within 21-30 years of age.
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Alcoholism; Alcoholics; Habits; Smoking; Tobacco
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP2.061
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