Abstract
Objective: This study was conducted to find out the youth perspective about the use of tobacco and its ill effects. The survey was conducted at a private Engineering college of Nagpur, Maharashtra India. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional study with self-administered modified Global youth tobacco survey (GYTS) questionnaire was used for data collection. Eight hundred nine college students of age group between 17 year-24years were included in this study. The questionnaire comprised of information on socio-demographic characteristics and questionnaire was used to gather data on knowledge, attitude and practices of participants about tobacco use. Data analysis was performed by using chi-square test and Statistical significance was measured at a level of 0.05. Result: Out of 806 total participants, 136 (16.8) were current tobacco consumers, significantly high prevalence of tobacco use was observed among boys 106 (13.1) than girls 30 (3.7). Moreover, a higher number of boys 106 (13.1) started smoking at young adolescent age (13- 20 years) than girls30 (3.7). Conclusion: The findings in the study suggest that tobacco use is still an important risk behavior amongst students. Tobacco use was comparatively higher amongst boys though its use is not restricted to them only. There is a need to plan to gather nationwide baseline data on the use of tobacco by young adolescents and the factors associated with initiation of tobacco habit.KeywordsGlobal youth tobacco survey (GYTS); Tobacco prevalence; Tobacco use among youth.
Highlights
Tobacco use is one amongst the foremost necessary preventable causes of premature death, round the world
The required permissions to conduct the study was taken from the concerned college authorities and after approval, the survey was carried out and written consent was obtained from the students who wanted to participate in the study
The findings in the study suggest that tobacco use among youngsters is still an essential risk behavior
Summary
Tobacco use is one amongst the foremost necessary preventable causes of premature death, round the world. Primarily smoking, is a major preventable public health problem among the youth of the developing countries. Several studies have reported that youngsters smoke their 1st cigarette while attending school [2]. The tobacco consumption mainly smoking trend is higher among the males of developing countries, but in most developed countries is more shifted toward females [3,4]. Various researches around the world reported higher prevalence of tobacco among the adolescent, in United Arab Emirates smoking prevalence among boys was 14.3% while it was 2.9 reported in girls. In a French study, smoking habit prevalence among male and females virtually same, 15.4% and 15.8% respectively. While in 27.8% of school children were regular smokers found in a Canadian schoolbased survey [2,5]
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