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South Korea's Aggressive Steps Slash Smoking 

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At an office in Seoul, employees are meeting to talk about kicking the cigarette habit. Health workers from a government-funded clinic are teaching them about the dangers of smoking, and testing their breath to see how long it has been since they last lit up.

South Korea has won praise from the World Health Organization for bringing about one of the world's most dramatic drops in smoking rates. Now only about four out of 10 men smoke. That compares with an average of seven or eight out of every 10 men before the year 2000.

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