The present study was conducted to investigate smoking status and the relationship of smoking to hypertension and diseases on 1,504 subjects who were over 30-year-old age in Kyungsan Gun, Kyungpook province, during the period of 12 months from March 1978 .to February 1979.
The results obtained are summarized as follows: Of 1, 504 subjects, 52.2 percent smoked. The percentage of males smoking showed 84.8 and the percentage of females was 30.7. There were no statistically significant differences between the rate of smoking and ed-
ucational levels.
Protestants demonstrated lower rates of smoking compared with other groups. Regarding the age started to smoke, 66.4 precept of male smokers and 16.9 percent of female smokers commenced smoking before the age of 19.
In the regard to the average number of cigarettes smoked daily, 45.8 percent of male smokers consumed some 20 cigarettes and 24.1 percent of femal6 smokers consumed some 10 cigarettes. 3.2 percent of male smokers smoked 40 or more cigarettes a day.
AIcohol consumption was closely associated with smoking. 90.7 percent of male alcohol .drinkers and 60.1 percent of female drinkers smoked.
Cigarette smokers have higher rates of ailments than nonsmokers as a whole.
The complaints of cough with sputum and shortness of breath´, revealed higher rates among smokers than among nonsmokers.
Frequency of illnesses showed higher for smokers than for nonsmokers. Smokers were more likely than nonsmokers to suffer from chronic obstructive lung diseases such as chronic bronchitis, asthma, and emphysema.
Abnormal systolic blood pressure(>160mmHg) and diastolic(>100) revealed significantly .higher among smokers than among nonsmokers.
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