Table 1. Patterns of smokeless tobacco use among women by type of user, and by specific product of use among single users.
Patterns of Smokeless Tobacco use | Sample percent (N = 409) | Types of smokeless tobacco | p value ^ | |||||
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Single Users (N = 261) | Poly Users # N = 148% | |||||||
Mishri N = 79% | Pan with tobacco N = 84% | Chewed Tobacco N = 29% | Gul N = 43% | Gutkha N = 26% | ||||
Type of user | ||||||||
Single | 63.8 | |||||||
Poly | 36.2 | |||||||
Frequency in a day (times) | <0.001 | |||||||
1–2 | 25.7 | 38.0 | 42.9 | 3.4 | 46.5 | 34.6 | 6.1 | |
3–4 | 34.0 | 44.3 | 38.1 | 41.4 | 37.2 | 26.9 | 25.0 | |
5 and above | 40.3 | 17.7 | 19.0 | 55.3 | 16.3 | 38.5 | 68.9 | |
Amount of tobacco consumed in a day (grams)1 | <0.001 | |||||||
<5 gms | 47.3 | 30.3 | 100.00 | 44.8 | 41.9 | 34.6 | 30.4 | |
> = 5 gms | 52.7 | 69.7 | 55.2 | 58.1 | 65.4 | 69.6 | ||
Tobacco kept in mouth | <0.001 | |||||||
<5 min | 25.4 | 32.9 | 14.3 | 41.4 | 67.4 | 19.2 | 13.5 | |
5–10 min | 39.4 | 26.6 | 48.8 | 27.6 | 25.6 | 34.6 | 48.0 | |
11–15 min | 20.5 | 19.0 | 21.4 | 24.1 | 4.7 | 19.2 | 25.0 | |
>15 min | 14.7 | 21.5 | 15.4 | 6.8 | 2.3 | 26.9 | 13.5 | |
Use of tobacco after getting up in morning | <0.001 | |||||||
≤ 5 min | 18.3 | 44.3 | 1.2 | 48.3 | 51.2 | 11.5 | 0.0 | |
6–30 min | 17.1 | 20.3 | 8.3 | 10.3 | 20.9 | 11.5 | 21.6 | |
31–60 min | 27.9 | 7.6 | 16.7 | 13.8 | 9.3 | 11.5 | 56.1 | |
> 60 min | 36.7 | 27.8 | 73.8 | 27.6 | 18.6 | 65.4 | 22.3 | |
Product brought from market by | <0.001 | |||||||
Self | 64.3 | 82.9 | 58.3 | 72.4 | 62.8 | 84.6 | 52.7 | |
Children | 22.0 | 11.8 | 20.2 | 10.3 | 14.0 | 7.7 | 35.8 | |
Other family members including husband | 13.7 | 5.2 | 21.4 | 17.2 | 23.3 | 7.7 | 11.5 | |
Native place | <0.001 | |||||||
Maharashtra | 19.8 | 75.9 | 2.4 | 10.3 | 2.3 | 19.2 | 6.8 | |
Uttar Pradesh | 70.9 | 21.5 | 95.2 | 65.5 | 83.7 | 57.7 | 83.1 | |
Other State | 9.3 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 24.1 | 14.0 | 23.1 | 10.1 |
# The distribution of SLT use among poly users—Mishri (35/148 = 24%), Pan with tobacco (112/148 = 76%), Chewed tobacco (75/148 = 51%), Gul (65/148 = 44%), Gutkha (50/148 = 34%)
^ Chi-sq test for association between independent variable and the type of user (single/poly user)