KT&G maintains over 60 percent market share, beating out global players in Korea Smoking culture in South Korea has seen a great change in the past decades
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Education is key
Preventing young people from smoking initiation Most smokers establish the smoking habit during adolescence
And according to a 2021 report into vaping from PHE: Smoking prevalence (including those who smoked sometimes or more than once a week) in March 2020 was 6.7% (compared with 6.3% in March 2019) and has changed little since 2015 when it was 7.1% There was little change in levels of vaping over the last few years with current vaping (at least once per month) prevalence being 4.8% in March 2020, the same as in March 2019 Smoking prevalence is at 6.2% (defined as smoking more than 100 cigarettes in their life and having smoked in the past 30 days) Current vaping prevalence is at 7.7% (defined as vaping on more than 10 days in their lifetime and having vaped in the past 30 days) Based on the socioeconomic status of 11 to 18 year olds, the estimates for smoking and vaping prevalence were higher among more advantaged groups in social grades A, B and C1 (7.1% for smoking, 5.3% for vaping) than for more disadvantaged groups in social grades C2, D and E (5.7% for smoking, 3.5% for vaping)
It has been made compulsory for all kinds of tobacco makers, modifiers, mixers, manufacturers, fabricators, assemblers, processors, labelers, re-packers, re-labelers, and importers to place warnings regarding its harmful effect on tobacco packages and advertisements
