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- Title
Role of family milieu in tobacco addiction: a study in a tertiary-care institution in India.
- Authors
Dwivedi, Shridhar; Aggarwal, Amitesh; Singh, Nishant; Aggarwal, Sourabh; Sharma, Vishal
- Abstract
Use of tobacco is singularly responsible for most cases of cancer and coronary artery disease (CAD). Efforts to stop tobacco-use need to be guided by social circumstances. It is believed that family milieu may play a role in tobacco addiction. We studied the prevalence and pattern of tobacco-use in families of 50 consecutive tobacco-user patients who presented to a tobacco-cessation clinic and compared with age- and gender-matched controls (non-users of tobacco). The tobacco-use rates were significantly higher in the family of patients with tobacco-use compared to the control group. We conclude that problems of tobacco-use are not related to individual phenomenon, and efforts for control of tobacco addiction must be focused on entire family.
- Publication
Journal of health, population, and nutrition, 2013, Vol 31, Issue 1, p130
- ISSN
1606-0997
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.3329/jhpn.v31i1.14757