Abstract

PICTORIAL WARNING ON CIGARETTE PACKETS IN TOBACCO CESSATION: A QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY

Arjun Chadha* and Tejaswini Chaudhary

ABSTRACT

Objective: Tobacco is the main risk factor for cancer and its incidence is increasing day by day. So government authorities are trying attentively to decrease the sale of tobacco products by implement ting pictorial warnings on the cigarette packets. This study was conducted to verify the impact of pictorial health warning labels on smokers. Material and Methods: This cross sectional study was conducted among patients coming to a dental check up camp organised in north Delhi. Those subjects aged 15 years and above and were established smoker (who smoke at least one cigarette per day at the time of the survey were selected. A total of 640 subjects were investigated using a pretested, self administered multiple choice and close ended questionnaire Descriptive statistics were obtained and frequency distribution, means, standard deviation were calculated. The significance ofdifference was set at p

Keywords: Health warnings, Pictorial Warning, Smoking, Tobacco cessation.