Prevalence of Tobacco Habits Among Health Care Students in Jaipur.

ABSTRACT

A questionnaire based study to assess the prevalence of tobacco use among undergraduate health care students of Maharaja Vinayak Health Care campus in Jaipur was done on 219 students of dental, nursing, physiotherapy and occupational therapy students. Global Health professional students survey (GHPSS), survey questionnaire given by (CDC) centre for disease control Athlanta which is a standard pre-tested questionnaire for assessing prevalence of tobacco use among health care professionals around the world was used. The present study showed 25.11% prevalence of smoking and 13.70% prevalence of chewing tobacco.This reflect alarming situation and demands urgent anti tobacco & tobacco cessation measures to be adopted by health professionals, who happens to be health promoters & health role models for society.