Prevalence of tobacco use in urban, semi urban and rural areas in and around Chennai City, India.

Prevalence of tobacco use in urban, semi urban and rural areas in and around Chennai City, India.

BACKGROUND: Tobacco use leads to many health complications and is a risk factor for the occurrence of cardio vascular diseases, lung and oral cancers, chronic bronchitis etc. Almost 6 million people die from tobacco-related causes every year. This study was conducted to measure the prevalence of tob...

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Main Authors: Kolappan Chockalingam, Chandrasekaran Vedhachalam, Subramani Rangasamy, Gomathi Sekar, Srividya Adinarayanan, Soumya Swaminathan, Pradeep Aravindan Menon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3788037?pdf=render

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