Smoked out or chewed up: trends in tobacco consumption in India using National Family Health Survey data from 2015 to 2016 and 2019 to 2021.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess and compare the patterns of smoked and smokeless tobacco use in India and to identify demographic and socioeconomic factors associated with tobacco use through secondary data analysis of National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) (2015-2016) and (NFHS-5) (2019-2021) datasets.

Study design and setting

A comparative weighted sample secondary data analysis was conducted using individual sampling weights in SPSS V.29.0, encompassing all 29 states and 7 union territories of India.

Participants

A total of 8 11 808 individuals from NFHS-4 (699 686 women aged 15-49 years and 1 12 122 men aged 15-54 years) and 825 954 individuals from NFHS-5 (724 115 women aged 15-49 years and 101 839 men aged 15-54 years), were included in the analysis.

Main outcome measure

SUBMITTER: Jacob AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12570946 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature