The data on smoking prevalence is available from the 1980’s. At that time, the smoking rate among adult men was 80%, one of the highest in the world. After a lot of efforts by KASH and other parties, it has dramatically decreased to 45% by 2007. Smoking rate among women was surveyed to be 6.3% in 2010 but that figure more than doubles to 13.9% when a urinary sample was took from the same population(figure 1). Smoking rate among female is underestimated.
(figure 1). Korea National Health & Nutrition Examination Survey (2010)
According to a recent study, smoking was more prevalent among younger population. The age group of 30 to 39 year-olds had the highest smoking rate and the group of people over 70 year-olds had the lowest (figure 2).
(figure 2). Korea National Health & Nutrition Examination Survey (2010)
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