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Public Health Weekly Report 2025; 18(22): 830-831
Published online June 5, 2025
https://doi.org/10.56786/PHWR.2025.18.22.3
© The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency
Trends in the Prevalence of Current Smoking Tobacco Products among Adolescents, 2019–2024
Doyeon Kim 
Division of Health and Nutrition Survey and Analysis, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency
This is an Open Access aritcle distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The prevalence of current smoking tobacco products among adolescents was 5.8% for boys, and 3.2% for girls in 2024, and the prevalence was higher for boys than for girls, and that for high school students (6.8%) was three times higher than for middle school students (2.3%). In 2024, the prevalence decreased in both boys and girls, and in middle and high school students compared to 2023 (Figures 1, 2).
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Figure 1. Trends in the prevalence of current smoking tobacco products among adolescents by sex, 2019–2024
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Figure 2. Trends in the prevalence of current smoking tobacco products among adolescents by school levels, 2019–2024
*Prevalence of current smoking tobacco products: percentage who are currently used either cigarettes, heated tobacco products, or electronic cigarettes (starting in 2019, question on the use of heated tobacco products were added to the questionnaire).
Source: The 20th Korea Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2024 (KYRBS), https://www.kdca.go.kr/yhs/
Reported by: Doyeon Kim, Division of Health and Nutrition Survey and Analysis, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency
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Public Health Weekly Report 2025; 18(22): 830-831
Published online June 5, 2025 https://doi.org/10.56786/PHWR.2025.18.22.3
Copyright © The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency.
Trends in the Prevalence of Current Smoking Tobacco Products among Adolescents, 2019–2024
Doyeon Kim
Division of Health and Nutrition Survey and Analysis, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency
This is an Open Access aritcle distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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The prevalence of current smoking tobacco products among adolescents was 5.8% for boys, and 3.2% for girls in 2024, and the prevalence was higher for boys than for girls, and that for high school students (6.8%) was three times higher than for middle school students (2.3%). In 2024, the prevalence decreased in both boys and girls, and in middle and high school students compared to 2023 (Figures 1, 2).
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Figure 1. Trends in the prevalence of current smoking tobacco products among adolescents by sex, 2019–2024
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Figure 2. Trends in the prevalence of current smoking tobacco products among adolescents by school levels, 2019–2024
*Prevalence of current smoking tobacco products: percentage who are currently used either cigarettes, heated tobacco products, or electronic cigarettes (starting in 2019, question on the use of heated tobacco products were added to the questionnaire).
Source: The 20th Korea Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2024 (KYRBS), https://www.kdca.go.kr/yhs/
Reported by: Doyeon Kim, Division of Health and Nutrition Survey and Analysis, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency
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