Tobacco Consumption and Their Associated Factors about the Andhra-Odessa Border People, Andhra Pradesh, India
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Tobacco is one of the major causes to the preventable worldwide deaths. Tobacco is not only major carcinogenic agent but cause to cancer and their associated problems around the world but also major risk factor for many chronic diseases parts of lungs and cardiovascular zones. We should (identified) estimate the Tobacco users among the Tribal area along with Odessa - Andhra border people and determine the associated risk problems. We are examined the data around 1040 in the time period between June,2024 to April,2025 based on the survey method of adult male and female along with adolescent students. The samples collection conceder as a education of Literates and Illiterates by the cross sectional random method. We calculated the data and information based on the village and college surveys around the exanimate area. Total calculation based on the age initiation, Sex, Religion, Socio Economic status and Family history. According to our collected information total number 964 (round figure 970) The above total Literature study 424 (43.98%) and Illiterates study is 540 (56.01%) out of them 964 ever consumers are 503 (52.17%) and partial consumers are 461 (47.82%),as well as smoking tobacco consumers are 836 (86.72%) fallowed by the smokeless tobacco consumers are 128 (13.27%).
Author: K. Hemasundararao*, D. Rama Rao, J. Venkatalkshmi, M. Harikrishana Prasad
Language: English
Subfield: Physiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7077518013
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