Abbreviated name:

Tobacco use among persons aged 18+ years

Indicator name:

Age-standardized prevalence of current tobacco use among persons aged 18+ years

Domain:

Risk factors

Subdomain:

NCDs and nutrition

Definition:

Age-standardized prevalence of current tobacco use among persons aged 18+ years. Smoked tobacco products include the consumption of cigarettes, bidis, cigars, cheroots, pipes, shisha (water pipes), fine-cut smoking articles (roll-your-own), krekets, and any other form of smoked tobacco. "Smokeless tobacco" includes moist snuff, plug, creamy snuff, dissolvables, dry snuff, gul, loose leaf, red tooth powder, snus, chimo, gutkha, khaini, gudakhu, zarda, quiwam, dohra, tuibur, nasway, naas/naswar, shammah, betel quid, toombak, pan (betel quid), iq’mik, mishri, tapkeer, tombol and any other tobacco product that is sniffed, held in the mouth, or chewed.

Numerator:

Number of current tobacco users aged 18+ years. Current users include both daily and non-daily users of smoked or smokeless tobacco.

Denominator:

All respondents of the survey aged 18+ years.

Primary Source:

PDHS

Secondary Source:

WHO

Disaggregation/Additional dimension:

Age, sex, other relevant sociodemographic stratifiers where available