South Korea’s men still smoking strongly

South Korea’s adult male smoking incidence, at 37.6 per cent, is second only to that of Greece, 43.7 per cent, among the 34 countries that make up the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), according to a story in The Korea Economic Daily.

The average adult male smoking incidence among OECD countries is 24.9 per cent.

In the same story, the Daily reported that, according to OECD Health Data 2014 published by the Ministry of Health and Welfare on July 2, Korea’s death rate from suicide as of 2012 was 29.1 persons per every 1,000, the highest rate among OECD members.