Objective: To support tobacco control policies in Korea by providing the estimated annual economic burden attributed to cigarette smoking. Methods: The following two different approaches were used to ...

Introduction The hardening hypothesis proposes that the proportion of hardcore smokers increases when smoking prevalence declines. To evaluate whether such hardening occurs in South Korea, we examined ...

Kim's wife Ri Sol-ju is said to have urged him to quit, but he "doesn't listen", some media outlets have reported. Is it true that women don't smoke? Smoking rates have been high in North Korea ...

The study, published in the JAMA Network Open, analysed data from over 5 million people in South Korea. It revealed that ...