Japan: Smokers on the decline; Now less than 20%
From the survey conducted by the Japan Ministry of Health, the number of chronic smokers as of November 2010 was 19.5% (3.9 less than the previous year). Historically, it was the lowest and the first time it went under 20% since the ministry have started the survey in 1986.
Among those 19.5%; 32.2% were male (6 less from the previous year), and 8.4% were female (2.5 less from the previous year).
Moreover, the number of smokers who want to quit smoking went up to 37.6% (3.4 more than the previous year), which was the highest of all time. Between the sexes; 35% (+4.2) of male smokers, and 43.6% (+2) of female smokers answered that they want to quit.
The ministry believes that the cigarette price hike in October 2010 might have helped people to quit or been helping them to consider quitting. They plan to submit their plan of reducing the number to 12.2% within the next 10 years at the National council of cancer on February 1.
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