SLT Prevelance

SMOKELESS TOBACCO PREVELENCE 

STATESTotalUrbanRuralMaleFemaleTotal number of usersRank in Prevalence
India21.415.324.629.612.8199552432
1Uttar Pradesh29.422.731.642.615.24305012610State with the highest number of SLT users in the country. Every third person is a SLT user in the state.
2Maharashtra24.421.027.531.716.622203512State with the second highest number of SLT users in the country. Every fourth person is a SLT user in the state.
3Bihar23.516.824.541.93.617098600State with the third highest number of SLT users in the country. Almost every one in two male is a SLT user in the state.
4Madhya Pradesh28.120.231.538.716.815327707State with fourth highest number of SLT users in the country. Almost every third person is a SLT user in the state.
5West Bengal20.114.323.322.817.214603856State with fifth highest number of SLT users in the country. One in five person uses SLT in the state.
6Odisha42.931.145.552.133.6139656663State with third highest prevelance of SLT users in the country. Every second male and third female uses SLT in the state.
7Assam41.737.142.650.532.597669744State with fourth highest prevelance of SLT users in the country. Every second male and third female uses SLT in the state.
8Gujarat19.216.321.727.6109191424One in five person use SLT in the state. Every third male and one in ten female use SLT in the state.
9Jharkhand35.429.237.754.115.785721108State with eighth highest prevelance of SLT users in the country. Every third person is a SLT user. More than half of the men and one sixth women uses SLT in the state.
10Karnataka16.313.318.422.210.37943642Every sixth person in the state is a SLT user.
11Rajasthan14.115.213.7225.87233300Every seventh person in the state is a SLT user.
12Chattisgarh3626.039.647.724.569501607State with seventh highest prevelance of SLT use in the country. Every third person is a SLT user. Every second male and every fourth female is a SLT user in the state.
13Tamil Nadu10.64.916.511.99.36190294One in every ten person in the state use SLT.
14Telangana10.18.611.311.392828808One in every ten person in the state use SLT.
15Andhra Pradesh7.14.88.37.66.62819978
16Punjab87.98.0150.31804080
17Kerala5.43.47.47.43.61461402
18Tripura48.545.749.840.856.514094101State with the highest prevelance of SLT use in the country. Almost half of the total population, including more females than males use SLT in the state.
19Delhi8.88.94.213.73.21306712
20Haryana6.39.04.6102.21270458
21Manipur47.739.752.450.245.210646642State with the second highest prevelance of SLT use in the country. Almost half of the total population incluidng every second male and almost every second female use SLT in the state.
22Uttrakhand12.413.711.721.23.4968068Almost one in every nine person in the state use SLT.
23Nagaland3938.539.34631.55881206State with sixth highest prevelance of SLT use in the country. Two third of the total population, inlcuding every second male and every third female use SLT in the state.
24Meghalaya20.319.220.711.629.1428736One in five person use SLT in the state. More than one fifth of the population, incluidng one third of the females and one tenth of the males use SLT in the state.
25Arunachal Pradesh39.333.441.450.127.74126505State with the fifth highest prevelance of SLT use in the country. Every second male and almost every third female use SLT in the state.
26Jammu & Kashmir4.31.85.46.81.5401104
27Mizoram33.533.333.821.3462814009State with ninth highest prevelance of SLT use in the country with one in three person using SLT in some form. More females (almost every second) than males (every fifth) use SLT in the state.
28Himachal Pradesh3.16.32.86.10.1170717
29Goa6.54.510.19.23.678455
30Chandigarh6.16.012.710.40.857584
31Sikkim9.77.110.913.85.148112
32Puducherry4.71.911.34.54.947376

Source : Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS)2016-17 Report