A school-based cross-sectional survey on the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adolescent boys in Srinagar discovered that 23 percent of school-aged boys in Srinagar smoke.
The first such survey, conducted by the Department of Community Medicine, Government Medical College Srinagar was published in the first issue of the Journal of Integrative Medicine and Public Health (JIMPH) and is now available.
According to the survey, study was conducted from June 2015 to March 2017 in 20 high schools chosen at random from the public and private sectors.
1200 boys from grade 9-12, in the age limit of 13-19 were included in the study.
It states that the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adolescent boys was found to be 29 percent ever smokers, and 23 percent current smokers.
