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Association Of Ethnic Location And Tobacco Dependence
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KIRUTHIKA PATTURAJA, ARTHI BALSUBRAMANIAM, IFFAT NASIM
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Tobacco use in India is characterised by prevalence of using smoke and smokeless tobacco. Tobacco use is associated with risk factors with many health complications in different parts of the world. Prevalence of use of cigarettes is high in urban India and prevalence of use of smokeless tobacco is high in rural India. This study aims to find the association of ethnic location and tobacco dependence in South India. A retrospective study was conducted using the case records of patients in University hospital between June 2019 to March 2020. Data on tobacco dependence and location from 150 patient records were collected and analysed for association. Descriptive statistics and chi-square tests were done using SPSS 23.0 statistical analysis. The mean age of patients in the records was 35 ± 12.44 years. The prevalence of tobacco dependence was found higher among males 98.7%. About 8.67% of the tobacco users with high dependency were from urban areas. There was no statistically significant association between ethnic location and tobacco dependence (p= 0.226). Urban males have higher nicotine dependency than rural males with no significant association.
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Tobacco dependence; Association; Rural; Urban.
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.SP2.099
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