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KMID : 1143420200130221561
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Public Health Weekly Report
2020 Volume.13 No. 22 p.1561 ~ p.1572
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Trends in tobacco use behaviors among Korean adults, 2013-2018: comparison with tobacco sales
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Lee Cheol-Min
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Abstract
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With the advent of new tobacco products (e-cigarettes and heated tobacco product) in South Korea, there is also a change in the behavior of existing smokers. Already, new tobacco products accounted for more than 10 percent of South Korea’s
tobacco sales in 2019. This study aims to identify changes in tobacco use behavior by analyzing data from 2013 to 2018 that e-cigarettes were included in the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the statistics on tobacco
sales by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. The current smoking rate is on the decline in men (41.4% → 35.8%), but in
women it has increased in recent years (5.7% → 6.5%). The current rate of e-cigarette use has been on the rise again since 2017, after hitting the highest level in 2015 when tobacco prices rose (men, 2.0% → 6.3%; women, 0.3% → 0.9). While the percentage of people who exclusively use e-cigarette is only less than 1 percent, the rate of dual use (both conventional and electronic cigarettes) is on the rise (men, 1.8% → 5.7%; women, 0.2% → 0.8%). The latest statistics from the Ministry of Economy and Finance show that the pace of decline in total tobacco sales is slowing down, different from other statistics. The drop in total tobacco sales, which stood at ?4% over the past five years (2014-2019), was ?1.5% in 2018 and ?0.7% in 2019, meaning that current policy has failed to deal closely with the expansion of new tobacco products. There is a need to evaluate and establish tobacco control policy, based on accurate national statistics on various tobacco products.
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KEYWORD
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tobacco, nicotine, electronic nicotine delivery system, survey, policy
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