A study published in BMCMedicine reports that prevalence of smokeless tobacco is higher among boys than girls aged 15-16 years and is the highest in South-East Asian region.
: Fig. S1. After excluding participants with missing data on sex, age and current smokeless tobacco use, and those aged 16 years, a total of 1,039,249 adolescents aged 12–16 years between 1999 and 2019 were included in the data analyses.Current smokeless tobacco use was defined as using any form of smokeless tobacco products during the past 30 days based on response to the question “During the past 30 days, did you use any form of smokeless tobacco products ?”.
Smoking status of closest friends was assessed based on response to the question “Do any of your closest friend smoke tobacco?”, and it was divided into “None”, “Some”, “Most”, and “All”.
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