Prevalence and Predictors of Hardcore Smoking in India-: Findings from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (2016-2017).

f CC BY-NC-SA I NTRODUCTION Tobacco use is a global public health threat, killing yearly around 7 million people.[ 1 ] The World Health Organization highlighted India as a high tobacco burden country attributing 9.5% of all global tobacco-related death.[ 2 3 ] Prevalence of adult smoking is showing a decreasing trend in India, i.e., 14% in Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS)-1 versus 10.7% in GATS-2.[ 3 4 ] which may be the result of legislative measures (the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act, 2003 [COTPA])[ 5 ] and National Tobacco Control Programme.[ 6 ] Evidence shows that with a decline in smoking pr

also in 47,180 other papers