Open AccessNicotine dependence and its correlates among the adult tobacco users in a slum of Burdwan district, West Bengal, India
Author(s) -
Indranil Saha,
Kamirul Islam,
Bobby Paul,
Tapas Kumar Som
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_42_17
Subject(s) - medicine , smokeless tobacco , nicotine dependence , demography , addiction , cross sectional study , tobacco use , chewing tobacco , nicotine , environmental health , slum , logistic regression , habit , population , social psychology , psychiatry , psychology , pathology , cancer , sociology
Tobacco kills half of its users, with smoking and smokeless tobacco killing nearly 6 million people worldwide - one death every 6 s in each year. Use of tobacco over time causes a physical and psychological addiction due to the presence of nicotine. To find out the level of nicotine dependence among adult (18 years and above) tobacco users and the factors responsible for it.