Pattern of cigarette smoking in an Iranian village

ABSTRACT

Background: Financial burden due to tobacco use is known all over the world. A high percentage of preventable cancers, respiratory and non respiratory diseases are due to cigarette smoking. Mortality rate due to cigarette smoking is approximately 4 million deaths per year at the present time; this figure is going to reach 10 million deaths per year by the year 2020 if the present trend continues. What makes countries and different districts different from each other in regard to the severity of the risks of cigarette smoking is the prevalence of cigarette smoking, mean age of starting smoking, and mean number of cigarettes smoked daily in that area