title: Role of family milieu in tobacco addiction: a study in a tertiary-care institution in India.
abstract: Use of tobacco is singularly responsible for most cases of cancer and coronary artery disease (CAD). Efforts to stop tobacco-use need to be guided by social circumstances. It is believed that family milieu may play a role in tobacco addiction. We studied the prevalence and pattern of tobacco-use in families of 50 consecutive tobacco-user patients who presented to a tobacco-cessation clinic and compared with age- and gender-matched controls (non-users of tobacco). The tobacco-use rates were significantly higher in the family of patients with tobacco-use compared to the control group. We conclude that problems of tobacco-use are not related to individual phenomenon, and efforts for control of tobacco addiction must be focused on entire family.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine/Preventive Cardiology, Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University), New Delhi 110 062, India.
authors.forename: Shridhar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dwivedi
authors.forename: Amitesh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Aggarwal
authors.forename: Nishant
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Sourabh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aggarwal
authors.forename: Vishal
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sharma
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005190:Family; D005192:Family Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology*; D062789:Tobacco Products / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D020340:Tobacco Use Cessation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014029:Tobacco Use Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology*