The nationwide campaign against smoking seen great progress in 2010, the smoking rate among men is falling below 40 percent for the first time.The Ministry of Health and Welfare, said Sunday that 39.6 percent of adult men smoked December, up 3.5 percent from 43.1 percent in the same period in 2009.Men 40 to 50 years were found to have depressed the rate of smokers in general, the ministry said.Compared with the first half of the year, the smoking rate among 40-odd years was reduced from 50 percent to 43.4 percent while that of 50 years was reduced to 31.3 percent from 41, 5 percent.
However, men aged between 20 and 30 smoked more in the second half of the year, prompting a campaign aside for relatively young smokers who like cheap cigarettes.The smoking rate for women also fell 3.9 percent in 2009 to 2.2 percent in the second half of 2010. But women aged 28 years or more younger smokers, with 5.8 percent consumption of snuff.
"More people have realized the health problems of smokers, with the government's efforts against smoking that is happening," said Im Jong-kyu, director general of health policy in the ministry.
The ministry questioned 3,000 adult smokers and nonsmokers in December.The average age they began smoking was 21. 1 and took six months before it became a "smoker" is defined as a person who smokes more than one cigarette a day.The survey found that 58.1 percent of male smokers and 52.9 of the women had tried to quit during the year.For the reasons for the failure, citing the stress (32.5 percent), lack of will (25.3 percent) and addiction (22.9 percent).Although 62. 3 percent of smokers willing to quit smoking, 67.4 percent of them said that snuff consumption had become a habit for a long time.
Respondents identified the expansion of smoke-free areas of snuff (22.8 percent) and an increase in cigarette prices (19 percent) as the most effective measures to combat smoking.Said ₩ 8056 per pack ($ 7.15) would be the best price to consider quitting. In Korea, a packet of cigarettes costs about 2,500 won.A new package of antismoking measures pending in the National Assembly. The government aims to reduce national smoking rate to the OECD average of 27.3 percent.
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