Health Policy Manag.  2023 Mar;33(1):85-106. 10.4332/KJHPA.2023.33.1.85.

Trend of Smoking and Second-Hand Smoke Rate: Year 2015–2020

• Nam JW
• Jang KY
• Kim GH
• Kim CN
• Song JS
• Noh JW
• Yoo KB

• KMID: 2549089
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4332/KJHPA.2023.33.1.85

Abstract

Background
The Korean government has established Health Plan and reinforced tobacco control policies step by step according to Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). This study aims to investigate yearly smoking and secondhand smoking (SHS) exposure rates adjusted by demographic and socioeconomic factors.
Methods
Multiple logistic regression analysis was conducted about the smoking experience, current smoking, and exposure to SHS at home, at work, and in public places using data from the 6th to 8th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2015– 2020).
Results
Comparing 2015 with other years, smoking experience rates significantly decreased from 2015 to 2018 in men and significantly increased from 2018 to 2020 in women. Compared to 2015, current smoking rates significantly decreased only in 2020 for men and significantly increased in 2018 and 2019 for women. The rate of exposure to SHS at home significantly decreased until 2018. Rates of exposure to SHS in the workplace and public places were significant all year.
Conclusion
There were a slowly decreasing trend in men and an increasing trend in women at current smoking rates. It was found that there were significant decreasing trends at exposure to SHS. There is a need to set policies that reduce current smoking rates and especially to set a customized program to lower women’s smoking rates.

Keyword

Framework Convention on Tobacco Control; Smoking rates; Secondhand smoke