Faculty of Health Sciences
School of Dentistry
Department of Community Dentistry
Traditional Tobacco Products
Anti-tobacco campaigns in the country to date have focussed almost exclusively on cigarettes neglecting other important and traditional nicotine delivery vehicles - the Traditional tobacco products (TTP). TTPs refers to non-cigarette forms of tobacco usually prepared by natives and includes various types of smokeless tobacco (ST) products, hand-rolled smoked tobacco and native pipes. Only limited information is available about TTP's true nature, magnitude of related disease-burden, mortality and socio-economic impact
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