Hamad Medical Corporation Tobacco Control Center, a World Health Organization Collaborating Center, had recently conducted a cross-sectional study to identify the prevalence of tobacco use among adults in Qatar.
Titled ‘Epidemiology of tobacco use in Qatar: Prevalence and its associated factors’, the study identified the prevalence of tobacco use among adults in Qatar to be 25.2 percent.
The study utilized the same methodology as a study undertaken in 2000 that reported a higher prevalence of tobacco smoking of 36.5 percent in Qatar.
HMC Tobacco Control Center Study Finds Tobacco Use Prevalent in One in Four Adults in Qatar .https://t.co/emyikrCBMVpic.twitter.com/6vs6O2FL6O مؤسسة حمد الطبية (@HMC Qatar) April 26, 2021