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Jump to full article: Donga.com (kr), 2008-05-05
Intro: Smoking rates of Korean women widely vary according to one's marital status and age, according to a survey. In some cases, the difference was as wide as 14 times.
A team of researchers led by Cho Hong-joon, a family medicine professor at Asan Medical Center in Seoul, surveyed some 100,000 Korean men and women (57,246 females, 52,769 males) on their smoking patterns in 1999 and 2003. The survey showed that 2.5 percent of the married women were smokers, while 7.1 percent of the unmarried women and 9 percent of those who suffered the death of their spouses enjoyed smoking. The figure for divorced women rose drastically to 16 percent, according to the survey released Sunday.
On the contrary, smoking rates of men were not significantly different whether or not they were married.
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