Abstract: Use of Tobacco is injurious to health. Tobacco use is responsible for 10% of adult deaths worldwide. Tobacco use is responsible for various carcinomas, multiple vascular and respiratory diseases, eustachian tube dysfunction, middle ear effusion and conductive hearing loss, rhinorrhea,sinusitis and hair graying. Tobacco use in the form of chewing, smoking,sniff leads to various benign and malignant conditions. In this study tobacco consuming patients were selected on personal history. The study subjects were classified according to socioeconomic status and categorised by Kuppuswamy classification 2014. Healthy age, sex matched control group without addiction to tobacco; alcohol was selected and compared with tobacco addict population. Tobacco consumption pattern was studied in Indian population of different socioeconomic class in association with various otorhinolaryngological manifestations.
Keywords: Tobacco, socioeconomic status, otorhinolaryngological
Title: Tobacco Addiction and Otorhinolaryngological Manifestations
Author: DR. RESHMA INGOLE
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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