October 2015 Vol. 3 No.10

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Original Research Article

Altmbak dipping prevalence attitude and trends towards cessation among male pharmacy students

Asma Noureldaim Mahmoud¹, Shayoub M. H.², Munzir M. E. Ahmed³, Al-Obosi Sabah Aziz Jawad⁴ and Osman H. M.^5*

¹Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Al Yarmouk.
²Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Khartoum.
³Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Gadarf.
⁴AL-Yarmouk College, Department of Pathology, Khartoum 11111, Sudan
⁵Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of National Ribat.

*Corresponding Author’s Email: hishamosman1212@gmail.com

Accepted October 19, 2015

Abstract

The phenomenon of dipping Altmbak was spread in Arabic’s country and African countries especially Sudan, this compound was used from long past time. Few studies were carried out on the side effect of Altmbak on Sudanese people. Recently, this phenomenon was becoming extremely huge in the Universities in Sudan. Altmbak was implicated in many diseases such as mouth cancer, and causes Bora sididip which are implicated of the spread of the microbe to the whole body, especially the kidneys, heart and digestive system. Altmbak causes many types of disease beside mouth cancer, such as throat cancer and esophageal cancer. Moreover, it plays central role in the spread of these cancers constantly to neighboring organs unless they are processed either chemically or radiation or surgically in addition to receding gums from the teeth and gum disease leading to osteoporosis in teeth. The present study was carried out in Khartoum state in April to June, 2015 to assess the prevalence of Altmbak dipping between Al – Yarmouk university students. The study found that 90 (45 %) of the students were using Altmbak dipping. In the mean time, the results revealed that students were aged between 24 – 26 years (33.5%), and followed by 15 – 17 years (28.5%). The results also showed that the highest percentage of students starts by using it during University period 55 (61.1%) and 35 (38.9) used it during higher secondary period. The results also showed that the highest percentage of student was using it more than 10 time per day (65.6%), followed by (23.3%) used it three time per day. Regarding the student information about Altmbak, it can induced cancer mouth all of them 90 (100%) known this impact of it in health problem. The results showed a very high percentage of students (68.9%) used it through their friends and 14.4% used it to get rid of smoking.

Keyword: Altmbak dipping, Mouth cancer, Snuff tobacco