Group 1

Presentation
 Zain ul Abdeen Chaudhary 01
 Maham Ayoub 42
 Rabia Unain 02
 Afshan Zafar 44
 Maryam javed 43
 Khadija bibi 45
 Nazish ashraf 26
 Subject
Survey and research report on smoking arise in Asia
 Recipient
World Health organization (WHO)
Switzerland
 Writer or sender
Pakistan health Research CENTER (PHRC)
Islamabad Pakistan
Date
23 July 2019
 Authorization
This Report is Authorized by the head of Pakistan
Health Research council (PHRC) and also the World
Health Organization (WHO)
 Transmittal
o Aware about smoking hazards
o Ban smoking in public areas
o Increse tax on smoking products
 Tobacco consumption leads to significant
public health burden.
 Weak smoking control system
 Low level of awareness, weak
implementation, marketing
 Different forms of tobacco are consumed
including smoke and smokelesstobacco
including cigarettes, pipes, huqqa, shisha,
paan, gutkha and naswar.
 Contents  Charts
 Methods  Table 1
 Data Variables Survey finding in Asia
 Statistical Analysis  Table 2
 Results Comparison between
 Discussion male and female
 Table 3
Comparison findings
 Methods
 Asked question that related to smoking
 Survey conducted in three countries
Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.
 In Pakistan three stages sampling Adults of
15 years and above are enrolled 7831giving
and response is 81% in four Provinces
 In India 69229 taken survey in 29 States
also taken in urban or rural areas the
response is 81%
In Bangladesh survey taken 9629
individual taken six administration of
country the response rate is 93.6%
 The response variables
• smokers, smokeless tobacco users,
• advised to quit by health care provider,
second-hand smoke exposure
• like daily smokers, former daily smokers
• second hand smoke at public place/home
were analyzed
 The weighted percentages or proportion for
the selected variables were taken directly
from GATS country reports and entered in the
Excel sheet (MS).
 Chi-square tests were used to assess the
differences in characteristics of tobacco
 The p-value less than 0.05 was considered as
significant.
Characteristics Pakistan India Bangladesh P Value

Tobacco Use 19.1% 34.6% 43.3% < 0.05

Current smokers 12.4% 14.0% 23.0% < 0.05
Smokeless tobacco 7.7% 25.9% 27.2% < 0.05
users
Advised to quit by 51.8% 46.3% 52.9% < 0.05
health care provide
Second-hand 69.1% 29.9% 63.0% < 0.05
smoke exposure
Thought of quitting 29.7% 38.0% 74.4% < 0.05
because of the
warning label
Characteristics Pakistan India Bangladesh PValue

Tobacco Use < 0.05

Male 31.8% 47.9% 58.0%
Female 5.8% 20.3% 28.7%

Current smokers < 0.05

Male 22.2% 24.3% 44.7%
Female 2.1% 2.9% 1.5%
Smokeless tobacco < 0.05
users 11.4% 32.9% 26.4%
Male 3.7% 18.4% 27.9%
Female
Advised to quit by < 0.05
health care provide 536.3% 47.3% 61.6%
Male 38.9% 52.7% 2.8%
Female
Second-hand smoke < 0.05
exposure 72.5% 32.2% 67.8%
Male 37.3% 19.4% 30.4%
Female
Thought of quitting 31.0% 40.2% 74.5% < 0.05
because of the 15.8% 9.5% 51.1%
warning label
Male
Female
Characteristics Pakistan P Value
India Bangladesh

Daily Smokers
Overall 11.5 10.7 20.9
Male 20.6 18.3 40.7 < 0.05
Female 2.0 2.4 1.3

Former daily smokers

Overall 1.1 12.6 4.7
Male 1.8 12.1 12.1 < 0.05
Female 0.3 16.2 1.0
Daily smokeless 7.1 21.4 23.7 < 0.05
tobacco user 10.5 27.4 20.7
Overall 3.5 14.9 26.6
Male
Female
Exposed to second- 73.8 29.0 45.0
hand smoke at any 85.6 39.5 72.1
public place 56.2 17.8 18.7 < 0.05
Overall
Male
Female
Adults exposed to 48.3 52.3 - 52.3
second-hand smoke at 50.8 52.2 -
home 45.7 52.5
Overall
Male
Female
 tobacco use, current smokers, and smokeless
tobacco users and others from Pakistan,
India, and Bangladesh. Overall tobacco use
was significantly high
 Similarly, current smokers were significantly
more in Bangladesh (23%) than India (14%)
and Pakistan (12%).
 The use of smokeless tobacco was also
significantly more in Bangladesh (27.2%) than
India
 Exposure to second-hand smoke was
significantly high in Pakistan
 The advice to quit tobacco was almost similar
 in India and 51% in Bangladesh but thought
of quitting after reading warning label was
high 74% in Bangladesh followed by 38% in
India and 29% in Pakistan
 females of India were more
 The use of smokeless tobacco was
significantly high among male gender
 The daily smokers were high in Bangladesh
 former daily smokers were more in India
 Second hand smoke at any public place was
significantly higher in Pakistan
 second-hand smoke at home was high in
India
 Internet websites
 https://www.who.int/tobacco/about/partner
s/bloomberg/pak/
 https://jpma.org.pk/PdfDownload/suppleme
n
 http://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/pakistan
-global-youth-tobacco-survey-2013.
 P value such as the absolute value of the
sample mean difference between two
compared groups
 PHRC Pakistan Health Research council
 WHO World Health Organization