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Table 2 Current smoking and smokeless tobacco use patterns in South Asia, SAB 2018–2022

From: Smokeless and combustible tobacco use among 148,944 South Asian adults: a cross-sectional study of South Asia Biobank

Variables ^a	Men					Women
Variables ^a	Bangladesh	India	Pakistan	Sri Lanka		Bangladesh	India	Pakistan	Sri Lanka
Number of participants	22,765	12,322	11,914	10,601		27,546	18,730	22,084	22,982
Concurrent use patterns
Non-use of either product	43.6	73.2	87.4	75.2		76.3	97.7	99.6	98.2
Current SLT only	16.5	8.2	1.1	9.6		23.3	1.3	0.0	1.6
Current smoking	31.6	14.7	11.3	11.9		0.3	1.0	0.4	0.1
Dual use	8.3	3.9	0.2	3.3		0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0
Among ever smokers ^b
Non-use of either product	17.0	19.1	5.1	33.8		27.9	38.2	5.4	37.3
Current SLT only	13.1	6.6	0.6	10.2		31.9	3.7	0.0	6.7
Current smoking	55.4	58.9	92.7	43.7		27.1	54.3	92.3	42.3
Dual use	14.5	13.1	1.6	12.2		13.1	3.7	2.3	13.7
Among ever SLT users ^c
Non-use of either product	8.5	11.7	6.6	8.7		7.7	28.8	9.9	11.0
Current SLT only	57.5	56.5	78.7	65.9		91.8	66.1	57.8	87.5
Current smoking only	5.2	5.4	0.8	0.2		0.0	1.9	0.0	0.1
Dual use	28.8	26.5	14.0	1.7		0.5	3.2	32.3	1.4

Abbreviations: SLT, smokeless tobacco
^aNumbers show percentages. All estimations, other than sample size, were weighted by post-stratification sample weights, calculated for each country based on age and sex distribution as estimated by the United Nations Population Prospects 2022 Revision
^bReported smoking currently or in the past
^cReporting using smokeless tobacco currently or in the past

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