Tobacco and areca nut cessation programme for adolescent school students in Mumbai, India

Background The prevalence of tobacco use among children aged 13-15 years is 14.6% and 15.5% of non-users intended to start smoking in the next year. School going children also consume areca nut (“supari”), which is an easily available carcinogenic, psychoactive substance, acting as a gateway product...

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Main Authors: Gauri Mandal, Himanshu Gupte, Vaibhav Thawal, Leni Chaudhuri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Publishing 2018-03-01
Series:Tobacco Induced Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.journalssystem.com/tid/Tobacco-and-areca-nut-cessation-programme-for-adolescent-school-students-in-Mumbai,84030,0,2.html