Open AccessTobacco use, its influences, triggers, and associated oral lesions among the patients attending a dental institution in rural Maharashtra, India
Author(s) -
Vikrant O Kasat,
Manjiri Joshi,
K V Somasundaram,
P Viragi,
Prasanna Dhore,
Sunil Sahuji
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of international society of preventive and community dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.476
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2250-1002
pISSN - 2231-0762
DOI - 10.4103/2231-0762.103454
Subject(s) - medicine , smokeless tobacco , health hazard , cross sectional study , outpatient clinic , chewing tobacco , oral health , environmental health , dentistry , tobacco use , population , pathology , cancer
World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that tobacco deaths in India may exceed 1.5 million annually by 2020.