Smokers in Gujarat are now starting to smoke at a much earlier age, while the number of those considering quitting tobacco has fallen, findings of the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) reveal. The survey findings show that the number of smokers who attempted to quit smoking or thought about it had declined sharply from the previous survey. The survey shows that ratio of current tobacco smokers has declined from 11% earlier to 7.7% now, and that of daily tobacco smokers from 9.2% to 6.8%. There has also been decline in smokeless tobacco users, paan users, khaini and oral tobacco application users. The survey findings reveal that from 42.4%, the number of smokeless tobacco users who thought about quitting fell to 31.1%.

Source: dna February 12, 2018 00:00 UTC