LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Tobacco use among school attending adolescents in Pakistan

Madam, tobacco use would cause over ten million deaths globally by 2020. This preventable public health problem among adolescents has been associated with anxiety disorders, truancy, depression, suicidal ideation, class 8-10 and its prevalence; Data was reviewed from the two-stage cluster sample-based nationally representative Global School-Based Health Survey for Pakistan, conducted in 2009 by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the World Health Organization and Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, United States.Design-based analysis using STATA-12 was done using simple and multivariate logistic regression; factors found statistically significant at p 0.10 level on simple logistic regression were used for multiple logistic regression.