Tobacco consumption and its association with illicit drug use among men in Bangladesh

Type Journal Article - Addiction
Title Tobacco consumption and its association with illicit drug use among men in Bangladesh
Author(s)
Volume 101
Issue 8
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2006
Page numbers 1178-1186
URL http://bases.bireme.br/cgi-bin/wxislind.exe/iah/online/?IsisScript=iah/iah.xis&src=google&base=ADOLE​C&lang=p&nextAction=lnk&exprSearch=16869847&indexSearch=ID
Abstract
Aims This study examined the association of tobacco consumption (smoking and chewing) with illicit drug use among Bangladesh males.

Design Cross-sectional survey data from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey 2004 were used.

Setting Bangladesh.

Participants A total of 4297 males aged 15–54 years.

Measurements Age, education, religion, marital status, place of residence; tobacco consumption such as cigarette and bidi smoking, chewing sada, pata, tobacco leaves, gul, betel quid with zarda; taking illicit drugs such as ganja, charas, heroin, pethedine, phensidyl; having sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

Findings Overall prevalence of tobacco consumption was 59%. Bidi smoking (29.6%), cigarette smoking (27.8%) and chewing betel quid with tobacco/zarda (17.5%) were predominant. Overall prevalence of illicit drug use was 4%. Ganja was the main drug (3%), followed by phensidyl (0.8%), heroin (0.3%) and charas (0.3%). Age, education, place of residence, marital status, having STDs, premarital and extra-marital sex were associated significantly with tobacco smoking. Almost all variables were also associated significantly with illicit drug use. Smoking cigarettes and bidi and eating tobacco leaves/shada pata/gul showed significantly positive associations with illicit drug use when adjusted for other variables.

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