Natl Med J India
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India is home to the largest population of patients with tuberculosis and tobacco users in the world. Smokeless tobacco use exceeds smoking and is increasing. There is no study to date that reports smokeless tobacco use before and after the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis. We assessed smokeless tobacco use among former patients of tuberculosis in Karnataka, India. ⋯ Patients with tuberculosis are advised by their doctors, at the time of diagnosis, to quit smoking. Several patients shift from smoking to smokeless tobacco use, which needs to be addressed while providing tobacco cessation services.
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Emergency medicine (EM) has recently been recognized as a specialty in India and formal training programmes are yet to be developed. ⋯ Recently graduated physicians found flaws in the current state of emergency care in India; however, overall they remain interested in the field of EM.