Frequency of cigarette smoking and its associated factors among men in East Africa: a pooled prevalence analysis of national survey using multinomial regression.

"Declarations Ethical considerations and data set accessThe study was conducted after obtaining a permission letter from www.dhsprogram.com on an online request to access east African DHS data after reviewing the submitted brief descriptions of the survey to the DHS program, and no need of ethical letter approval. The datasets were treated with the utmost confidence. This study was done based on secondary data from east Africa DHS. Issues related to informed consent, confidentiality, anonymity, and privacy of the study participants are already done ethically by the DHS office. We did not manipulate and apply the microdata other than in this study. There was no patient or public involvement in this study. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests."

"Funding This study was not supported financially by anyone."