Singh Sujan, Fatima Anum, Jain Ashish, Jain Anjali, Singh Sejjal
Department of Community Medicine, Government Medical College, Orai, Jalaun, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Department of Community Medicine, M.G. Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2024 Jul;13(7):2736-2740. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_1754_23. Epub 2024 Jun 28.
Children are more sensitive to tobacco advertisements than adults. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that tobacco use has doubled in the past four decades particularly among the youth. Smoking among teenagers is an issue that affects countries worldwide.
This study identified the prevalence of tobacco consumption among youth of rural Jaipur. We also studied, their age of initiation of tobacco and their correlation with the income and occupation of parents.
Community based cross-sectional type of study was conducted on youth of 15-24 years of age in 30 clusters in the Vatika, Jaipur. Cluster sampling technique was adopted. A semi-structured pretested and predesigned questionnaire was used for data collection. The inter-personal communication technique was used maintaining full confidentiality. All the results were transferred onto Microsoft excel sheet and evaluated statistically.
Out of 420 youths, 79.0% youths consumes nicotine in any form. More male subjects (90.9%) consume nicotine than females (62.8%) highly significantly. 33.1% youths started nicotine consumption <12 years. Youths from more income family(63.6%), illiterate father (76.2%), illiterate mother (74.4%), father having farming as occupation (67.2%), consumes more nicotine. more (88.6%) of youths consume nicotine with their friends. 58.1% parents oppose their children.
The prevalence of nicotine intake was higher in boys than girls and majority of them consumes nicotine in any form gutka or beedi-cigarette. The reasons for such high dependence of nicotine according to the youth were lack of knowledge of the ill effects of nicotine intake and peer pressure. However, majority of the youth did not want to quit nicotine consumption.
儿童对烟草广告比成年人更敏感。世界卫生组织（WHO）报告称，在过去四十年中，烟草使用量翻了一番，尤其是在年轻人中。青少年吸烟是一个影响全球各国的问题。
本研究确定了斋浦尔农村地区青少年烟草消费的流行情况。我们还研究了他们开始使用烟草的年龄以及与父母收入和职业的相关性。
在斋浦尔瓦蒂卡的30个群组中，对15至24岁的青少年进行了基于社区的横断面研究。采用整群抽样技术。使用经过预测试和预先设计的半结构化问卷进行数据收集。采用人际沟通技术并严格保密。所有结果都转移到Microsoft Excel工作表中并进行统计评估。
在420名青少年中，79.0%的青少年以任何形式消费尼古丁。男性受试者（90.9%）消费尼古丁的比例显著高于女性（62.8%）。33.1%的青少年在12岁之前开始消费尼古丁。来自收入较高家庭（63.6%）、父亲文盲（76.2%）、母亲文盲（74.4%）、父亲职业为务农（67.2%）的青少年消费尼古丁更多。更多（88.6%）的青少年与朋友一起消费尼古丁。58.1%的父母反对他们的孩子吸烟。
男孩中尼古丁摄入量的患病率高于女孩，并且他们中的大多数以任何形式消费尼古丁，如古特卡或比迪烟。根据青少年的说法，尼古丁如此高依赖性的原因是缺乏对尼古丁摄入不良影响的认识和同伴压力。然而，大多数青少年并不想戒掉尼古丁消费。
