Early and Late Age at Initiation of Tobacco in India

Severity of use tobacco consumption is more in India compared to other countries. The major form of tobacco consumption in India is smokeless tobacco. With the changes in the dynamics of societies, the prevalence of tobacco has increased its wings towards between women and young children have increased. In this context, this study based the correlates between who start early and late use of tobacco in India. The findings reveal that, the people living in rural areas are higher using the tobacco (smoking & smokeless form) as compared to urban areas in India for both ages at initiation. The education is the important factor to remove the higher use of tobacco as we know those students who have the secondary and above are less started in the both ages (early and late) at initiation of tobacco. Men are using tobacco higher for females in both early and late age at initiation of tobacco in the country. The risk of tobacco use is highest between those who start early and continue its use for a long time till the end of life. Age and region are two factors which significantly positively associated in both ages (early and late) at initiation of tobacco consumption.