SRINAGAR: Around 21 percent adults in Jammu and Kashmir are using tobacco even as authorities have taken slew of measures to decrease the percentage of tobacco consumption in JK
As per Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS- 2) data it has come to fore 35.2 percent men and 5.1 percent women and 20.8 percent of all adults currently smoke Tobacco in JK.
As per data, 6.8 percent men , 1.5 percent women and 4.3 percent of all adults currently use smokeless tobacco, while 39.7 percent men and 6.2 percent women and 23.7 percent of all adults either smoke tobacco or use smokeless Tobacco.
The National Health and Family Survey-5 (NHFS-5) data reveals nearly one-third (32%) of men, but only 1 percent of women, age 15-49 use some form of tobacco.
“Tobacco products mostly used by men are cigarettes (27%), bidis (4%), hookah and cigars or pipe (2% each). Among women and men, the use of any form of tobacco is slightly higher in rural areas (1.4% for women and 35% for men) than in urban areas (0.7% for women and 24% for men),” the data adds.
