Almost 29% of the world adults smoke and almost 17% are here in Nepal. A national sample survey on tobacco use covering 4,889 respondents was conducted in
10 of the 75 districts of the country at the end of 2000. A four-stage cluster sampling
method was used. According to this survey the proportion of all respondents aged 15 and
above ever smoked was 42.6%. The proportion of males ever smoked was 54.0% and
among the females it was 31.6%. The survey also inquired about the reasons for starting
to smoke among the respondents who ever smoked. The majority of smokers said that they started smoking because of influence from friends.
The second most important reason for smoking appears to be the influence of parents or
other senior family members who smoked. Family influence appears to be more
prominent among the females than among the males in encouraging
people to smoke. Other reasons cited were personal inquisitiveness , one's own
liking to smoke, worry and influence of siblings. Some 4.5 per
cent women started to smoke because their husbands.
many developing countries of the world. In Nepal there is very little such information.
Use of tobacco has been identified as one of the risk factors for contributing to a high
prevalence of chronic bronchitis in Nepal.
With the over growing trend of smoking and indirect promoting in songs and films and other social media related advertisment. It has also been seen that the people who have been influenced by the social media are influencing the kids into the smoking trend.
In Nepal, especially in rural areas there are different sorts of tobacco use. They use hookah, bidi, surti and things like that which are even more harmful because their filters are very think and ineffective and the chances of it filtering the harmful smoke is very less causing rise in diseases.
Source : http://mohp.gov.np/english/files/new_publications/9-3-Tobacco-Control-Act.pdf
