F-92 Changes in smoking habits of Korean adult men due to the price increase of tobacco in 2015 = F-92 Changes in smoking habits of Korean adult men due to the price increase of tobacco in 2015

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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. In Korea, most smoker is men, and smoking rate is very high compared to other OECD countries. So, in this article, we try to analyze change in smoking habits of adult in Korea after increasing tax rate of tobacco.
Method: for the study, we had used national health and nutrition survey 6 th. The subject is current smoking male over the age of 19. Smoker is defined as current smoker who smoke over 100 cigarettes in a whole life. In this group, smoking rate, reason for quitting smoking, 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% (407 out of 2154) in 2014 to 34.4% (413 out of 2352) in 2015. People who had tried to stop smoking(2008), they said reason for quitting smoking is ‘concern about health’ (763, 38%), ‘problem of health (470, 23.4%) and ‘expensiveness of tobacco’ (131 6.5%).
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