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The aim of this study is to analyze tobacco use behaviour of the people aged 15 years and over in Turkey. Also, association between tobacco use and socio-demographic variables (gender, age, education, marital status, employment status, household income) and tobacco-related disease variables (asthma, lung diseases,  coronary heart disease, hypertension, stroke and also alcohol use) is investigated.  In this study, dataset has been gathered from Turkey Health Interview Survey 2016 conducted by Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) including 17,242 individuals. Since all variables are categorical, results are presented as frequencies and percentages. To determine whether or not there is a assocation between related variables, Chi-Square test has been conducted  and Cramer’s V coefficient has been calculated. Additionally, t-test has been employed for continuous variables. Based on results of analyses, it has been seen that 43% of males and 18.57% of females and overall 29.43% of the respondents are current tobacco smokers while 14.19% of respondents are former tobacco smokers in Turkey. Accordingly, prevelence of tobacco use is quite higher among males than males. With regard to relationship between tobacco use status and social-demographing variables, gender and education level are found to be the most significant factors On the other hand, alcohol use is highly related with smoked tobacco. The results obtained from t test indicate that males started smoking earlier than females and also the number of cigarettes smoked per day in males is higher than females. Just about one-third of the daily smokers attempted to quit smoking and former smokers did not take any assistance to quit smoking. This result indicates that smokers should be encouraged to quit smoking using other cessation methods with new regulations. 

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