Abstract :
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.
