Tobacco use and its determinants in the 2015 Kenya WHO STEPS survey

• Main Authors: Christine Ngaruiya (Author), Hussein Abubakar (Author), Dorcas Kiptui (Author), Ann Kendagor (Author), Melau W Ntakuka (Author), Philip Nyakundi (Author), Gladwell Gathecha (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2015, over 1.1 billion people smoked tobacco, which represents around 15% of the global population. In Africa, around one in five adults smoke tobacco. The 2014 Kenya Global Adult Tobacco Survey reported that 2.5 million adults...