P C Gupta

..60, 95% CI 1.78-3.80) were significantly high in male smokers than never tobacco users. CONCLUSIONS: Bidi is no less hazardous than cigarette smoking, and smokeless tobacco use may also result in significantly increased mortality...

..This study aims to investigate factors associated with smoking initiation and cessation which is imperative in designing intervention programs...

..The role of diet in India's rapidly progressing chronic disease epidemic is unclear; moreover, diet may vary considerably across North-South regions...

..Influence of education, a marker of SES, on cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality has not been evaluated in low-income countries. To determine influence of education on CVD mortality a cohort study was performed in India...

..The aim of this feasibility study was to evaluate whether a diet-focused cohort study of cancer could be established in India, providing insight into potentially unique diet and lifestyle exposures...

..Unfortunately, data on Malaysian population is non-existent. This study aims to determine the factors associated with the inception and also cessation of betel quid chewing behaviour among Malaysian adults...

..15-0.25 g of tobacco) or chewed, is another important determinant of health. Tobacco use also may exert a strong influence on BMI...

..This study outlines the association between concurrent alcohol and tobacco use among a middle-aged and elderly population in a western Indian cohort after controlling for various sociodemographic factors...

..Tobacco use works against social and economic development and should be appropriately addressed through health education and tobacco cessation services particularly in the underprivileged, illiterate population...

..These relationships are virtually unexplored in populations having patterns of both tobacco use and body habitus atypical of those typically enrolled in epidemiologic studies...

..To determine all-cause and circulatory system (cardiovascular)-related mortality in subjects with different grades of hypertension, we performed a prospective study...

..This paper examines the association between smoking (mainly bidi smoking) and tuberculosis in Mumbai, India...

..Tobacco use and undernutrition are serious problems in India. The current study indicates that obesity may emerge as a serious public health problem with which tobacco use may interact...

..22, 95% CI = 5.31-15.75), and public transportation (adjusted OR = 10.58, 95% = 5.90-18.98) intended to quit compared to unexposed users. Conclusion: Anti-tobacco messages have positive influence on user's intentions to quit...

..A prospective cohort study was conducted in Mumbai (India) to study the association of relative body weight, as estimated by body mass index [BMI = weight (kg)/height(2) (m(2))], with mortality...

..Conclusion: Self-reported tobacco use status, age, parents' tobacco use, close friends' smoking, and the route they take to school were significant determinants of exposure to SHS at home and outside the home...

..Although all expressed the need, 29.1-54.8% students received cessation training in their schools. Conclusion: Tobacco control policy, cessation training and initiatives to help students quit smoking should be undertaken...

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..Further exploration and clarification of this association is therefore of considerable importance to public health...

..To examine the relationship between tobacco advertisements, counter-advertisements, and smoking status among Indian youth...

..The future of treatment resides in improvement in patient matching to treatment, combination or novel drugs, and viewing nicotine addiction as a chronic disorder that might need long-term treatment...

..During this same period, India conducted the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS) in 2003 and 2006 in an effort to track tobacco use among adolescents...

..The WHO FCTC has recommended actions to monitor and limit the tobacco use in young age groups. One of the actions is to examine the prevalence of tobacco habits in school children 13-15 years of age and of personnel employed in schools...

..Findings suggest that more extensive introduction of comprehensive school policies may help reduce tobacco use among school personnel...

..We assessed social disparities in the prevalence of overall tobacco use, smoking, and smokeless tobacco use in Mumbai, India, by examining occupation-, education-, and gender-specific patterns...

..This paper uses qualitative data to explore differences in tobacco use patterns and tobacco use prevention efforts among teachers in two Indian states with high versus low prevalence of tobacco use...

..We report here on the rationale, design, and implementation of the world's largest prospective study of the causes and correlates of mortality...

..This paper compares tobacco use patterns and tobacco use prevention efforts among teachers in two Indian states with high versus low prevalence of tobacco use...

..Teaching in schools regarding harmful effects of tobacco use was non-existent (3%). This urgently requires a comprehensive prevention program in schools and the community especially targeted towards girls...

..These findings suggest that the wider introduction of comprehensive school policies may help to reduce adolescent tobacco use...

..0 (2.6 to 27.2). CONCLUSIONS: Consumption of smokeless tobacco during pregnancy decreases gestational age at birth and birth weight independent of gestational age. It should receive specific attention as a part of routine prenatal care...

..By enhancing data on staging, the Indian cancer registries could widen the scope of collaborative, cross-national research...

..Tobacco education must be imparted through schools, existing government health programmes and hospital outreach programmes...

..6% of these doing so on at least 6 days per week. CONCLUSIONS: Abstinence, and also heavy and frequent use of alcohol, are common in this population and the latter is likely to have significant public health implications...

..Introduction of comprehensive school policies and enforcement on tobacco use may help to reduce adolescent and school personnel tobacco use...

..First step towards this may be training of school personnel on tobacco use prevention skill and supply of teaching materials...

..The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (ratified by 140 countries as of October 1, 2006) provides a template outlining the ingredients for a comprehensive tobacco control campaign...

..The nationwide effects of smoking on mortality in India have not been assessed reliably...

..The results of our study demonstrate that exposure to substantial amounts of carcinogenic tobacco-specific nitrosamines through use of smokeless tobacco products remains a major problem in India...

..Tobacco users (60.5%) as well as non-users (63%) favoured ban smoking in public places equally. Tobacco use by parents and close friends was positively associated with students' current tobacco use...

..Most of the doctors did not take tobacco history (60-80%). CONCLUSION: Medical doctors in Bihar need to be trained for tobacco cessation. Smoking needs to be enforced vigorously in health sector to protect patients and doctors...

..To test the effect of dietary nutrients on oral precancerous lesions in a reverse-smoking (i.e. smoking with the glowing end inside the mouth) population in South India...