The second round of Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) reveals that overall tobacco use has declined significantly among adults in Kerala from 21.4% in 2009-10 to 12.7% in 2016-17. The survey data was released here on Wednesday by Health Minister K.K. Shylaja. The data shows that smoking has decreased among adults from 13.4% to 9.3% during this time-period while the use of smokeless tobacco also came down from 10.7% to 5.4%. Smokers use these two GATS-2 survey found that cigarette and betel quid with tobacco were the two most commonly used tobacco products in the State with 6.7% of the adults smoking cigarette and 4.4% of adults using betel quid with tobacco. The survey, which has set global... [Read more]