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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2018.19.12.451

Cigarette price rise induced change in youth smoking rate  

Min, Gyeong-Mun (Graduate School of Public Health, Kyungpook National University)
Seo, Young-Ho (Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Kyungpook National University)
Park, Chang-Hee (Department of Radiologic Technology Daegu Health College)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.19, no.12, 2018 , pp. 451-461 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study investigated changes in the youth smoking rate and smoking cessation rates before and after a cigarette price increase in 2015. Specifically, the changes in smoking rate, smoking cessation attempt rate, selection rate and amount of smoking were investigated using primary data pertaining to Korean Youth Risk Behavior obtained from a web-based survey of youth general characteristics, mental health, subjective grade, drinking and smoking related characteristics before and after a cigarette price increase. To accomplish this, 800 middle school and high school students in 9th (2013), 10th (2014), 11th (2015) were surveyed. The current youth smoking rate was slightly decreased from 9.7% in 2013 to 9.2% in 2014, while the smoking rate in 2015 decreased significantly by 15.2% after the cigarette price increased to 7.8%. These results confirmed that increasing cigarette price is very effective at decreasing youth smoking rate, providing motivation to stop smoking and preventing smoking. The prevention of smoking and inducement to stop smoking during adolescence is very important because the majority of teenage smokers continue smoking into their adulthood. In addition to expanding a completely non-smoking area and a comprehensive ban on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship should be urgently sought, and the effect can be maximized when the WHO FCTC faithfully implements the already-founded treaty.
Keywords
cigarette price; youth smoking; youth smoking cessation; youth general character; youth mental health; youth subjective grade;
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