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KMID : 0381219740060060305
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Journal of RIMSK
1974 Volume.6 No. 6 p.305 ~ p.309
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Cigarette Smoking in Korea
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Abstract
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Since 1618, our country began to smoke cigarette and it seems to have been one of the new world´s contributions to civilization.
According to the Korean Tax Administration Agencies, total consumption of cigarettes in 1973. is about, 47, 100 million, total production of tobacco is about 56, 000 ton in a year, and total income of tobacco is about 1, 600 million won. It is difficult for most smokers to explain just why they smoke. Sociability, custom, nervous habit, or their neurotic character and personality structure are also undoubtedly factors in Korea. But once one has become a regular smoker, the addictive properties of nicotine become important.
A large number of scientific and professional organizations as well as official government agencies have all concluded that cigarette smoking is a health hazard of major proportions.
There is abundant evidence that smoking, particularly of cigarettes, is harmful.
The shorter life expectancy of smokers as compared with nonsmokers and the excessive rates of disability and death of smokers from pulmonary disease including cancer of the lung and from disease of the coronary arteries are grim evidence of the price that many people pay for smoking.
If one "must smoke", it is safer to smoke a pipe or cigars than cigarettes.
If one :insists on smoking cigarettes, he should not inhale, should limit the number to not more than half a pack a day, should smoke only about half of each cigarette, and should use cigarettes with filters that are effective in removing a considerable proportion of the tar and nicotine in the smoke.
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