Tobacco and Indian Youth: A Review.

In India and the South Asian part of the world use of tobacco is seen for a longtime. If we go back decades back tobacco is used as a gift to treat the guests and also it was encouraged to use in past times. Sooner when the malicious side effects of tobacco were noticed people tried to avoid the consumption of tobacco. The psychological mindset of the youth is quite impressionable, seeing the things that the adults do would easily encourage them to do the same. Thus, this article reviews various forms of tobacco used in our Indian society and how the government of India is taking action to curb the tobacco abuse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]