Tobacco Use and Cessation among a Nationally Representative Sample of Men in India, 2019–2021

Table 3

Percentage of men aged 15-49 who use any kind of tobacco and percentage who smoke cigarettes or bidis and, among those who smoke cigarettes or bidis, the percentage who smoke 5 or more cigarettes or bidis each day on average, by background characteristics, India, 2019-21.

Background characteristic	Percentage who use any kind of tobacco		Percentage who smoke cigarettes		Percentage who smoke bidis		Number of men	Percentage who smoke 5 or more cigarettes/bidis each day on average		Number of men who smoke cigarettes/bidis
	%	CI at 95%	%	CI at 95%	%	CI at 95%		%	CI at 95%
Age
15-19	14.6	13.7-15.5	6.2	5.5-6.9	2.5	2.0-3.0	16,407	17.8	15.7-20.1	1184
20-34	39.1	38.2-39.9	14.9	14.3-15.6	7.1	6.7-7.6	41,743	36.1	35.0-37.1	7776
35-49	51.8	50.9-52.8	14.5	13.8-15.2	15.4	14.716.1	35,118	57.1	56.0-58.1	8777
Residence
Urban	32.4	31.3-33.6	14.6	13.7-15.5	6.1	5.5-6.7	32,896	42.5	41.2-43.8	5813
Rural	43.5	42.8-44.1	12.5	12.1-12.9	11.3	10.8-11.7	60,371	46.6	45.7-47.5	11,924
Schooling
No schooling	62.2	60.5-63.8	15.2	13.9-16.5	22.6	21.2-24.1	9760	61.9	60.1-63.6	3081
Primary	63.1	61.4-64.8	16.9	15.6-18.2	20.7	19.3-22.2	10,782	55.1	53.4-56.7	3364
Secondary	37.3	36.6-38.0	12.8	12.3-13.4	7.3	6.9-7.7	54,223	40.2	39.2-41.2	9077
Higher	20.5	19.3-21.7	11.3	10.3-12.4	2.0	1.7-2.4	18,503	27.8	26.0-29.7	2214
Religion
Hindu	39.6	38.9-40.2	12.7	12.2-13.2	9.0	8.7-9.4	73,730	44.1	43.3-44.9	13,471
Muslim	41.8	40.3-43.3	14.4	13.3-15.5	12.1	11.0-13.2	14,653	49.8	48.1-51.6	3282
Others	33.1	30.8-35.5	17.5	15.6-19.6	7.6	6.7-8.6	4885	45.4	42.3-48.5	984
Caste/tribe
Unreserved	35.0	33.7-36.3	12.6	11.6-13.7	7.8	7.0-8.6	19,915	49.2	47.5-50.9	3314
OBC	35.7	34.8-36.5	10.9	10.3-11.4	6.5	6.1-6.9	40,394	39.2	38.0-40.5	5876
SC/ST	46.8	45.8-47.8	15.1	14.3-15.9	13.2	12.5-13.9	28,408	49.6	48.4-50.9	6350
Wealth quintile
Lowest	59.7	58.5-61.0	14.8	13.9-15.7	19.2	18.1-20.3	15,627	49.1	47.6-50.6	4352
Second	49.4	48.2-50.6	14.6	13.7-15.6	13.5	12.6-14.4	18,521	47.4	45.9-48.9	4239
Middle	38.9	37.7-40.0	12.8	12.0-13.6	8.5	7.9-9.3	19,855	47.3	45.6-48.9	3533
Fourth	31.8	30.6-33.0	12.8	11.9-13.7	5.2	4.7-5.8	20,686	42.4	40.7-44.1	3213
Highest	22.3	20.9-23.6	11.5	10.4-12.7	2.9	2.4-3.4	18,578	35.1	33.2-37.1	2401
Total age 15-49	39.6	39.6-39.6	13.2	13.2-13.2	9.4	9.4-9.4	93,267	45.2	45.5-46.0	17,737
Age 50-54	54.0	53.9-54.0	13.7	13.7-13.7	20.5	20.5-20.5	8572	64.6	62.7-66.5	2462
Total age 15-54	40.7	40.8-40.8	13.3	13.3-13.3	10.4	10.4-10.4	1,01,839	47.6	46.9-48.3	20,198