As the middle class expands, with over 65% of households earning above AED 25,000 monthly, the market for smokeless tobacco is likely to benefit from increased purchasing power and consumer willingness to explore new products
Cigarettes are typically smoked for a quick nicotine fix and are often inhaled due to the added chemicals that make the smoke smoother
Statistical methods used to analyze outcomes included t-tests, ANOVA, chi-squared tests, Fishers exact test, and various regression models
Moreover, the covariate selection algorithm identified a significant difference between data points that were maximally controlled and those that were not and a further difference between data points that controlled for age, sex, and smoking, and those that did not control for smoking, so the two corresponding covariates were used to accordingly adjust the observations included (Table 2)