An Assessment of various smoking & smokeless tobacco related habits and their associated oral mucosal lesions within Nagpur district populations

Abstract

An Epidemiological study was carried out to assess various tobacco related habits and their associated oral mucosal lesions within Nagpur district - Rural / Urban populations. . 4 rural and 4 urban clusters were taken for this study A cluster random sampling technique was used in this study with 100 subjects examined form each cluster. Sample size was 800 subjects including both Rural / Urban populations... Data was collected by conducting interviews and clinical examination. The statistical analysis was done by using SPSS 14.It was observed from this study that, various tobacco related habits were more from rural sectors than urban. Habit of smoking was very common among rural population when compared to smoking in urban population. Habit of chewing tobacco was common in rural population when compared to urban. Increased prevalence of habits of both smoking and chewing were observed among Men. Only few females had the habit of smoking, though the prevalence for chewing tobacco was more than smoking. To conclude from this study, chewing and smoking tobacco habits are existing within our society. Tobacco related oral lesions are also alarmingly high from this study group.