Open AccessAdolescent tobacco menace: Attitudes, norms, and parental influence
Author(s) -
Preeti Sharma,
Vijay Wadhwan,
Pooja Aggarwal,
Neeraj Sharma
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of dental research/indian journal of dental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1998-3603
pISSN - 0970-9290
DOI - 10.4103/ijdr.ijdr_31_16
Subject(s) - habit , peer pressure , smokeless tobacco , medicine , environmental health , addiction , tobacco use , demography , psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , population , sociology
Adolescence is a very delicate and vulnerable age when children are exposed to the harmful and damaging culture of the society. Tobacco habits are increasingly becoming an annoying menace to the Indian society since the past few years. The teenage group is fast catching up the tobacco habits because of its easy availability in the local Indian markets. Thus, this study was envisaged to analyze the factors responsible for this adverse habit and to obtain an overview of the trends in tobacco habits in young children of North India.