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EPIDEMIOLOGY STUDY OF TOBACCO CONSUMPTION AMONG ADOLESCENT BOYS RESIDEING AT LAKSHMIPURA VILLAGE, BANGALORE

Vijayalakshmi*, Jesindha Beyatricks and Christeena Saji

ABSTRACT

The prevalence of tobacco consumption in other forms such as snuff, chewing tobacco, burnt tobacco powder, and paste was 19.3% and 9.9% in rural and urban males, respectively, 9.3 and 4.3% in rural and urban females respectively. Very few studies have been conducted in rural area but not in Belgaum urban area .Hence this community based study on patterns of tobacco consumption among adolescent boys may help to develop strategies to prevent tobacco consumption during the younger days of life. The data was collected using predesigned questionnaire for the age group of 10-18 years for about 400 adolescent boys. The main observations of the study were 33.12% of the adolescents were addicted with one or other type of tobacco chewing, majority of addicted adolescent were in the age group of 17-19years.

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