Tag: health effects smokeless tobacco

UBINIG/TABINAJ Betel quid or Paan-jarda use is a common practice among men and women in the rural and urban lower income groups. This is a socially accepted practice and unlike cigeratte or biri does not have any cultural barrier. Although it is an open practice, there is gap of information about the users, which becomes a constraint in developing any regulatory framework for reducing consumption under the provision of the existing tobacco control law as amended in 2013. So far the information available about users is from Global Adult Tobacco Survey, 20091. In Bangladesh 43.3% of adults (41.3 million) currently use tobacco in smoking and/or smokeless form. Out of the total tobacco users 27.2% (25.9 million adults) currently (2009) use smokeless tobacco with 26.4% of men and ...