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

Table 6

Percentage of men aged 15-49 who tried to stop tobacco, who were advised to quit tobacco, who visited a doctor, and who were exposed to secondhand smoke, by background characters, India, 2019-21.

	Tried to quit tobacco in the last 12 months		Number of current users of tobacco	Advised to quit any form of tobacco		Number of current tobacco users who visited to healthcare provider	Secondhand smoke (SHS)		Number of men
	%	CI at 95%		%	CI at 95%		%	CI at 95%
Age
15-19	25.6	22.9-28.4	2554	36.5	28.1-45.7	333	58.5	57.1-59.8	16,385
20-34	30.8	29.6-32.1	17,382	50.9	47.5-54.2	2725	63.4	62.6-64.3	41,688
35-49	30	28.9-31.2	19,416	58.1	55.0-61.2	3076	62.3	61.3-63.2	35,071
Residence
Urban	28.4	26.5-30.3	11,378	57.7	52.5-62.9	1578	60.5	59.3-61.7	32,852
Rural	30.8	29.9-31.7	27,974	52.3	50.0-54.7	4556	63	62.4-63.6	60,291
Schooling
No schooling	25.2	23.4-27.1	6473	55.9	50.6-61.1	909	65.4	63.8-67.0	9747
Primary	28.1	26.3-30.0	7258	54	48.7-59.1	1117	68.8	67.1-70.3	10,768
Secondary	32.1	31.0-33.2	21,577	53.6	50.7-56.5	3410	61.7	60.9-62.4	54,151
Higher	30.8	27.9-34.0	4044	51	43.3-58.7	698	57.9	56.3-59.3	18,478
Religion
Hindu	30.8	29.8-31.7	31,094	54.6	52.2-57.0	4723	62.1	61.4-62.7	73,632
Muslim	25.9	23.9-28.1	6534	50.8	44.8-56.8	1172	62.9	61.4-64.4	14,633
Others	34.1	29.9-38.6	1724	49.7	40.0-59.3	238	60.3	57.8-62.7	4878
Caste/tribe
Unreserved	32.6	30.4-34.9	7524	58.9	53.2-64.5	1178	62.7	61.3-64.0	19,221
OBC	31.9	30.6-33.2	15,551	52.6	49.1-56.1	2243	61	60.1-61.9	38,986
SC/ST	28.8	27.6-30.1	14,350	51.1	47.6-54.5	2088	65.6	64.6-66.6	27,418
Wealth quintile
Lowest	27.1	25.7-28.6	9956	51.1	47.0-55.1	1540	68.5	67.3-69.7	15,606
Second	29.3	27.8-30.9	9750	51.2	47.1-55.3	1486	64.2	63.1-65.4	18,497
Middle	32	30.3-33.7	8227	55.4	50.7-60.0	1339	60.3	59.2-61.5	19,829
Fourth	32.2	30.1-34.5	7012	56.2	50.4-61.8	1076	60.6	59.3-61.9	20,658
Highest	31.7	28.6-35.0	4408	57.9	49.8-65.6	692	58.2	56.6-59.8	18,553
Total age 15-49	30.1	30.1-30.1	39,233	53.7	51.5-55.9	6134	62.1	61.5-62.7	93,144
Age 50-54	29.1	29.1-29.1	4994	66.2	60.4-71.5	949	60.4	58.5-62.3	8695
Total age 15-54	30	30.0-30.0	44,227	55.4	53.3-57.4	7083	62	61.4-62.5	1,01,839