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Impact of anti-tobacco warning labels on behaviour of tobacco users in one of the cities of Gujarat, India
BACKGROUND. Tobacco use continues to be the leading global cause of preventable deaths, killing nearly 6 million people worldwide each year. Tobacco control must be given the high priority by scaling up tobacco control measures. In India under Control of Tobacco Product Act, it is mandatory to keep...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4718388/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24396992 |
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author | SHAH, V.R. DAVE, V.R. SONALIYA, K.N. |
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description | BACKGROUND. Tobacco use continues to be the leading global cause of preventable deaths, killing nearly 6 million people worldwide each year. Tobacco control must be given the high priority by scaling up tobacco control measures. In India under Control of Tobacco Product Act, it is mandatory to keep the warning labels over all kind of tobacco products in order to minimise the use of tobacco. OBJECTIVES. Review of the knowledge regarding warning labels printed on tobacco products among its users and to evaluate the impact of them on addicting behaviour. METHODOLOGY. A Cross Sectional study was carried out among the group of people using tobacco in any form. Total 776 tobacco users were enrolled in the study. RESULTS. Mean age of tobacco user was 41.4 years. Out of total 776 tobacco users, 561(72.3 %) had ever noticed warning signals over the tobacco products. Among those who have noticed warning labels, 64.4 % became aware about health effects and 66% have thought to quit tobacco. Tobacco users of young age group (15-45) were more aware regarding warning labels. Females were less aware. As level of education increases number of tobacco users who tried to quit or reduced the daily quantity of tobacco intake were also increases. CONCLUSIONS. Positive impact of warning labels has been seen among the tobacco users who have noticed them. Not all the tobacco users were aware regarding the presence of warning labels as per the findings of present study. |
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spelling | pubmed-47183882016-02-02 Impact of anti-tobacco warning labels on behaviour of tobacco users in one of the cities of Gujarat, India SHAH, V.R. DAVE, V.R. SONALIYA, K.N. J Prev Med Hyg Original Article BACKGROUND. Tobacco use continues to be the leading global cause of preventable deaths, killing nearly 6 million people worldwide each year. Tobacco control must be given the high priority by scaling up tobacco control measures. In India under Control of Tobacco Product Act, it is mandatory to keep the warning labels over all kind of tobacco products in order to minimise the use of tobacco. OBJECTIVES. Review of the knowledge regarding warning labels printed on tobacco products among its users and to evaluate the impact of them on addicting behaviour. METHODOLOGY. A Cross Sectional study was carried out among the group of people using tobacco in any form. Total 776 tobacco users were enrolled in the study. RESULTS. Mean age of tobacco user was 41.4 years. Out of total 776 tobacco users, 561(72.3 %) had ever noticed warning signals over the tobacco products. Among those who have noticed warning labels, 64.4 % became aware about health effects and 66% have thought to quit tobacco. Tobacco users of young age group (15-45) were more aware regarding warning labels. Females were less aware. As level of education increases number of tobacco users who tried to quit or reduced the daily quantity of tobacco intake were also increases. CONCLUSIONS. Positive impact of warning labels has been seen among the tobacco users who have noticed them. Not all the tobacco users were aware regarding the presence of warning labels as per the findings of present study. Pacini Editore SpA 2013-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4718388/ /pubmed/24396992 Text en © Copyright by Pacini Editore SpA, Pisa, Italy http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License, which permits for noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any digital medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not altered in any way. For details, please refer to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ |
spellingShingle | Original Article SHAH, V.R. DAVE, V.R. SONALIYA, K.N. Impact of anti-tobacco warning labels on behaviour of tobacco users in one of the cities of Gujarat, India |
title | Impact of anti-tobacco warning labels on behaviour
of tobacco users in one of the cities of Gujarat, India |
title_full | Impact of anti-tobacco warning labels on behaviour
of tobacco users in one of the cities of Gujarat, India |
title_fullStr | Impact of anti-tobacco warning labels on behaviour
of tobacco users in one of the cities of Gujarat, India |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of anti-tobacco warning labels on behaviour
of tobacco users in one of the cities of Gujarat, India |
title_short | Impact of anti-tobacco warning labels on behaviour
of tobacco users in one of the cities of Gujarat, India |
title_sort | impact of anti-tobacco warning labels on behaviour
of tobacco users in one of the cities of gujarat, india |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4718388/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24396992 |
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