Research Article Tobacco Use and Its Associated Factors among Undergraduate Public Health Students in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal Birendra Chand , 1 Sandesh Bhusal , 1,2 Pranil Man Singh Pradhan , 3 Kiran Paudel , 1,2 Nisha Adhikari, 1 Tara Ballav Adhikari , 2,4,5 and Sushan Man Shrestha 1 1 Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal 2 Nepal Health Frontiers, Tokha-5, Kathmandu, Nepal 3 Department of Community Medicine, Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal 4 Section for Global Health, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark 5 COBIN Project, Nepal Development Society, Bharatpur 10, Chitwan, Nepal Correspondence should be addressed to Sandesh Bhusal; sandeshbhusal86@gmail.com Received 26 February 2022; Accepted 25 June 2022; Published 8 July 2022 Academic Editor: Issam A. Al-Khatib Copyright © 2022 Birendra Chand et al. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Background. Despite the crucial role of public health students in tobacco control, there is a paucity of information regarding tobacco use among this population in Nepal. is study aims to assess the prevalence of tobacco use among undergraduate public health students in Kathmandu valley, Nepal. Methods. A web-based survey was conducted among 386 undergraduate public health students in Kathmandu valley, Nepal, using the Global Health Professions Student Survey (GHPSS) questionnaire. Associated factors were examined using multivariate logistic regression analyses at the level of significance of 0.05. Results. A total of 16.8% of students were current cigarette smokers, 39.9% had ever smoked cigarettes, and 62.2% had smoked their first cigarettes during adolescence. Among the participants, 11.7% currently used other tobacco products. Male students (aOR: 15.4; 95% CI: 4.9–47.8), students with higher age (aOR: 2.4; 95% CI: 1.0–5.4), students belonging to non-Brahmin/Chhetri ethnic group (aOR: 2.3; 95% CI: 1.2–4.4), and those staying without family (aOR: 2.0; 95% CI: 1.1–5.0) had higher odds of being current smoker. Similarly, students with a parental history of tobacco use (aOR: 2.4; 95% CI: 1.3–5.0) and friends with smoking habits (aOR: 7.9; 95% CI: 2.3–27.0) were more likely to be a current smoker. Conclusion. ere is a notable prevalence of tobacco use among public health students in Kathmandu valley, Nepal. Concerned stakeholders should work jointly to implement a cessation program to discourage tobacco use among these populations who have a potential role in educating communities about the hazards of tobacco smoking, tobacco use prevention, and control. 1. Introduction e tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced, killing more than 8 million people a year globally. More than 7 million of those deaths result from direct tobacco use, while around 1.2 million are the result of nonsmokers being exposed to second-hand smoke [1]. Tobacco use is the leading global cause of pre- ventable death [2] and a major proven risk factor contributing substantially to the rising burden of noncommunicable dis- eases [3]. In South Asia, approximately 1.2 million people die yearly from tobacco consumption. Although Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka have country-specific tobacco control laws and policies, tobacco consumption among the youths is common, and the magnitude of the problem is increasing [4]. e WHO STEPwise Approach to NCD Risk Factor Surveillance (WHO- STEPS survey) Nepal 2019 showed that 28.9% of adults aged 15–69 years currently used either smoked tobacco or smokeless tobacco products. Despite adopting tobacco con- trol laws and policies, there has been no significant reduction in tobacco users between 2013 and 2019 in Nepal [5]. Hindawi Journal of Environmental and Public Health Volume 2022, Article ID 1495779, 7 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/1495779