Density of Tobacco Retailers near University Effect on Tobacco Use among Students
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2023
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UMT, Lahore
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This study explores the density of tobacco retailers nearby a university and its likely effect on general wellbeing. Utilizing geographic information system, we investigated the dissemination of tobacco retailers inside a one-mile range of the university discoveries uncover a high density of tobacco retailers, including general stores, service stations, and tobacco stores, in nearness to the grounds. This high retailer density presents huge worries for the university local area, especially for understudies' smoking ways of behaving and openness to tobacco promoting. The ramifications of these discoveries are examined with regards to tobacco control approaches, wellbeing advancement, and the requirement for additional exploration to address this general medical problem. This study highlights the significance of establishing without tobacco conditions around instructive foundations to decrease smoking prevalence and protect the health of students. Further the data collection for the study was done using a technique called cross-sectional. It’s a population size of 27,000 and a sample size of 379 calculated using the Morgan table. SPSS was used for data analyses