About 44 per cent of Indians who quit smoking are found to get hooked to other forms of tobacco which are as harmful as cigarettes and bidis a country-wide survey said. The survey was conducted in all the 29 states and two union territories and had a sample size of 69296 individuals aged 15 years and above. It found that 44.4 per cent of all successful quitters of smoking switched to using smokeless tobacco namely products like plain chewable tobacco leaves khaini pan masala zarda and gutka. Of all those surveyed 50.8 per cent men and 8.7 women reported switching
