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Changes in Smoking Habits of Korean Adult Men and Adolescent Due to the Price Increase of Tobacco in 2015
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A3576 - Changes in Smoking Habits of Korean Adult Men and Adolescent Due to the Price Increase of Tobacco in 2015
Author Block: B. Kho1, Y. Kim2, I. Oh3, J. Lim4; 1chonnam national univ. hospital, gwangju, Korea, Republic of, 2Internal medicine, Chonnam national university hospital, Gwangju, Korea, Republic of, 3Chonnam University Hospital, Gwangju, Korea, Republic of, 4chonnam national univ. hospital, Gwangju, Korea, Republic of.
Purpose : As part of implementation of “Framework Convention on Tobacco Control” of world health organization and financial penalty for the purpose of smoking rate reduction, government began to raise the tax of tobacco from January 1, 2015.There is controversy whether increasing rate of tax is enough to fall smoking rate. So, in this article, we try to analyze change in smoking habits of adult and adolescent in Korea after increasing tax rate of tobacco.
Method: for the study, we had used national health and nutrition survey 6 th and national adolescent health habit status online survey(2013 ~ 2016). The former subject is current smoking male over the age of 19 and later subject is secondary students. In adults, smoker is defined as current smoker who smoke over 100 cigarettes in a whole life. In school age, smoker is defined who smoke over one day in last one month. In each group, smoking rate, association between smoking cessation and increasing tax rate of tobacco and smoking habit change after increasing tax rate of tobacco were analyzed.
Result : When comparing the smoking rate before and after increasing of tobacco tax rate, adult male smoking rate was decreased 39.3% in 2014 to 34.4% in 2015 and adolescent male smoking rate was decreased 9.2% in 2014 to 7.8% 2015. As analyze reason of stop smoking depending on income level, ratio that the reason is raising tobacco price is 7.1% in low income level, 2.3 % in middle income level and 5.7% in high income level. In school age group, smoking rate fell down 12.3% in 2014 to 10.3% in 2015 in low pin-money group. And smoking rate was higher as take more pin-money. 55% of subject (576) said there is no change of smoking habit after tobacco tax rate increase, 34.4% (360) said amount of cigarettes smoking is decreased after increase tobacco tax rate and 8% (84) stop smoking.
Conclusion: after tax rate increase, male smoking rate is decreased, and there is some effect of increase price of tobacco to quitting smoking, especially in low income level. Therefore, not only non-price policy, but price policy of tobacco should be also considered for successful national smoking cessation strategy.
Author Block: B. Kho1, Y. Kim2, I. Oh3, J. Lim4; 1chonnam national univ. hospital, gwangju, Korea, Republic of, 2Internal medicine, Chonnam national university hospital, Gwangju, Korea, Republic of, 3Chonnam University Hospital, Gwangju, Korea, Republic of, 4chonnam national univ. hospital, Gwangju, Korea, Republic of.
Purpose : As part of implementation of “Framework Convention on Tobacco Control” of world health organization and financial penalty for the purpose of smoking rate reduction, government began to raise the tax of tobacco from January 1, 2015.There is controversy whether increasing rate of tax is enough to fall smoking rate. So, in this article, we try to analyze change in smoking habits of adult and adolescent in Korea after increasing tax rate of tobacco.
Method: for the study, we had used national health and nutrition survey 6 th and national adolescent health habit status online survey(2013 ~ 2016). The former subject is current smoking male over the age of 19 and later subject is secondary students. In adults, smoker is defined as current smoker who smoke over 100 cigarettes in a whole life. In school age, smoker is defined who smoke over one day in last one month. In each group, smoking rate, association between smoking cessation and increasing tax rate of tobacco and smoking habit change after increasing tax rate of tobacco were analyzed.
Result : When comparing the smoking rate before and after increasing of tobacco tax rate, adult male smoking rate was decreased 39.3% in 2014 to 34.4% in 2015 and adolescent male smoking rate was decreased 9.2% in 2014 to 7.8% 2015. As analyze reason of stop smoking depending on income level, ratio that the reason is raising tobacco price is 7.1% in low income level, 2.3 % in middle income level and 5.7% in high income level. In school age group, smoking rate fell down 12.3% in 2014 to 10.3% in 2015 in low pin-money group. And smoking rate was higher as take more pin-money. 55% of subject (576) said there is no change of smoking habit after tobacco tax rate increase, 34.4% (360) said amount of cigarettes smoking is decreased after increase tobacco tax rate and 8% (84) stop smoking.
Conclusion: after tax rate increase, male smoking rate is decreased, and there is some effect of increase price of tobacco to quitting smoking, especially in low income level. Therefore, not only non-price policy, but price policy of tobacco should be also considered for successful national smoking cessation strategy.
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