Table 2.
Tobacco use in the ballabgarh population (adjusted to the WHO standard population)
| Gender | Male |
Female |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Site | Urban (n=1263) | Urban-slums (n=1260) | Rural (n=1359) | Urban (n=1326) | Urban-slums (n=1304) | Rural (n=1469) |
| Daily current tobacco use | 35.2%a | 48.3% | 52.6% | 3.5%a | 11.9% | 17.7% |
| (32.6- 37.9) | (45.5-51.0) | (49.9-55.3) | (2.6-4.6) | (10.2-13.8) | (15.8-19.7) | |
| Daily smoking | 25%a | 40.8 % | 47.9% | 2.2%a | 9.1% | 16.5% |
| (22.6- 27.5) | (38.1-43.6) | (45.2-50.6) | (1.5-3.1) | (7.6-10.8) | (14.6-18.5) | |
| Daily smokeless tobacco user | 12%a | 10.5% | 6.8% | 1.4%a | 3% | 1.4% |
| (10.3-14.0) | (8.8-12.3) | (5.5-8.2) | (0.8-2.1) | (2.1-4.1) | (0.9-2.2) | |
| Simultaneous smoked and smokeless tobacco use | 1.9%a | 3.0% | 2.1% | 0 | 0.2% | 0.2% |
| (1.2-2.8) | (2.1-4.0) | (1.4-3.0) | ||||
| Mean number of cigarettes smoked by current daily smokers | 6.0a | 4.2 | 3.1 | -b | -b | -b |
| (4.8-7.2) | (2.9-5.4) | (2.2-4.0) | ||||
| Mean number of bidis smoked by current daily smokers | 13.4 | 14.2 | 15.1 | 6.3 | 7.3 | 7.4 |
| (12.2-14.6) | (13.4-15.1) | (14.3-15.9) | (3.4-9.3) | (5.8-8.8) | (6.2-8.7) | |
| Mean number of times, hookah/pipe/chillum smoked by current daily smokers | -b | 3.1 | 2.9 | -b | 2.6 | 3.5 |
| (2.3-4.0) | (2.6-3.3) | (1.9-3.3) | (3.2-3.8) | |||
| Mean number of times gutkha consumed in a day by current daily smokeless tobacco users | 4.3 | 3.6 | 4.5 | -b | -b | -b |
| (3.2-5.4) | (2.9-4.3) | (0.7-9.6) | ||||
| Mean number of times khaini consumed in a day by current daily smokeless tobacco users | 6.5a | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 5.5 | 4.6 |
| (5.4-7.5) | (3.6-5.2) | (3.8-5.5) | (2.1-5.8) | (4.1-6.9) | (2.5-6.7) | |
The age distribution of the users was standardized against the WHO standard population. Values are shown as percent (95% confidence intervals) for proportions and mean (95% confidence intervals) for quantitative variables.
a
Refers to the statistically significant P value of <0.05 by the χ2 test (for proportions) or one-way ANOVA/Welsh test (for means) across the three regions within a specific gender.
b
Means were not calculated since the number of observations was less than 25.