ReviewBMJ global health2020
Smokeless tobacco control in India: policy review and lessons for high-burden countries.
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- Exploring the perceived socio-cultural factors in the initiation of smokeless tobacco among adolescents: a qualitative systematic review.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Efficiency of behaviour support interventions for smokeless tobacco cessation by dentists.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2026Trial
- Prevalence of Oral Potentially Malignant Lesions, Tobacco use, and Effect of Cessation Strategies among Solid Waste Management workers in Northern India: a pre-post intervention study.BMC oral health · 2024Trial
- The impact of tobacco cessation on buccal mucosa cancer risk: A multi-centre case-control study in India.International journal of cancer · 2026Article
- Tobacco usage among healthcare professionals and workers in tribal areas of Jharkhand - A cross-sectional study.Journal of education and health promotion · 2026Article
- Family Structure and Peer Influences as Correlates of Lifetime Smokeless Tobacco Use Among Undergraduate Students at The University For Development Studies, Ghana: An Analytical Cross-Sectional Study.Tobacco use insights · 2026Article
- Caste and tobacco use: Decomposing inequalities using Global Adult Tobacco Survey, India.PloS one · 2026Article
- Developing a theory-based health education intervention to prevent adolescent students from smokeless tobacco use.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Podoplanin expression in various types of oral dysplasia and oral squamous cell carcinoma.Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences · 2025Article
- Relationship between tobacco use and body mass index- a propensity score matching analysis of an indian National Survey.PloS one · 2025Article
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- Association Between Cigarette and Bidi Purchase Behavior (Loose vs Pack) and Health Warning Label Exposure: Findings From the Tobacco Control Policy India Survey and In-Depth Interviews With People Who Smoke.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- Determinants of Quit Attempts and Short-Term Abstinence among Smokeless Tobacco Users in India: Global Adult Tobacco Survey, 2016-17.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2024Article
- "The ban is there, but it is not there": perceptions of cigarette users and tobacco vendors regarding ban on the sale of loose cigarettes in India.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Challenges and opportunities in implementing and enforcing India's loose cigarette sales ban: A qualitative stakeholder analysis.PloS one · 2024Article
- Determinants of tobacco use among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa. A multilevel mixed-effect logistic regression model.PloS one · 2024Article
- Effects of chewing tobacco on corneal endothelium in patients with diabetes mellitus.Eye (London, England) · 2023Article
- Oral health and nicotine dependence in tobacco users visiting a Dental Institution in North India.Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene · 2023Article
- Programme and policy perspectives towards a tobacco-free generation in India: findings from a qualitative study.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Changing socioeconomic and geographic gradients in cardiovascular disease risk factors among Indians aged 15-49 years - evidence from nationally representative household surveys.The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia · 2023Article
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Abstract
We examined the magnitude of smokeless tobacco (SLT) use in India and identified policy gaps to ascertain the priorities for SLT control in India and other high SLT burden countries in the Southeast Asia region. We reviewed and analysed the legal and policy framework to identify policy gaps, options and priority areas to address the SLT burden in India and lessons thereof. In India, 21.4% adults, including 29.6% of men, 12.8% of women, use SLT while more than 0.35 million Indians die every year due to SLT use. SLT use remains a huge public health concern for other countries in the region as well. Priority areas for SLT control should include: constant monitoring, increasing taxes and price of SLT products, strengthening and strict enforcement of existing laws, integration of SLT cessation with all health and development programmes, banning of advertisement and promotion of SLT, increasing age of access to tobacco up to 21 years, introducing licensing for the sale of SLT, standardising of SLT packaging and preventing SLT industry interference in the implementation of SLT control policies besides a committed multistakeholder approach for effective policy formulation and enforcement. SLT control in India and the other high SLT burden countries, especially in the Southeast Asia region, should focus on strengthening and implementing the above policy priorities.
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