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Reasons for Initiation and Regular Use of Heated Tobacco Products among Current and Former Smokers in South Korea: Findings from the 2020 ITC Korea Survey

South Korea is the world’s second-largest heated tobacco product (HTP) market after Japan. HTP sales in South Korea have increased rapidly since May 2017, accounting for 10.6% of the total tobacco market in 2020. Despite this, little is known as to why HTP consumers who were current and former smoke...

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Autores principales: Seo, Hong Gwan, Xu, Steve S., Li, Grace, Gravely, Shannon, Quah, Anne C. K., Lee, Sungkyu, Lim, Sujin, Cho, Sung-il, Kim, Yeol, Lee, Eon Sook, Choi, Yoon-Jung, Miller, Connor R., Goniewicz, Maciej L., O’Connor, Richard J., Fong, Geoffrey T.
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Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10048802/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36981869
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064963
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author Seo, Hong Gwan
Xu, Steve S.
Li, Grace
Gravely, Shannon
Quah, Anne C. K.
Lee, Sungkyu
Lim, Sujin
Cho, Sung-il
Kim, Yeol
Lee, Eon Sook
Choi, Yoon-Jung
Miller, Connor R.
Goniewicz, Maciej L.
O’Connor, Richard J.
Fong, Geoffrey T.
author_facet Seo, Hong Gwan
Xu, Steve S.
Li, Grace
Gravely, Shannon
Quah, Anne C. K.
Lee, Sungkyu
Lim, Sujin
Cho, Sung-il
Kim, Yeol
Lee, Eon Sook
Choi, Yoon-Jung
Miller, Connor R.
Goniewicz, Maciej L.
O’Connor, Richard J.
Fong, Geoffrey T.
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description South Korea is the world’s second-largest heated tobacco product (HTP) market after Japan. HTP sales in South Korea have increased rapidly since May 2017, accounting for 10.6% of the total tobacco market in 2020. Despite this, little is known as to why HTP consumers who were current and former smokers started using HTPs and used them regularly. We analyzed cross-sectional data for 1815 adults (aged 19+) who participated in the 2020 International Tobacco Control (ITC) Korea Survey, of whom 1650 were HTP-cigarette consumers (those who reported smoking cigarettes and using HTPs ≥ weekly) and 165 were exclusive HTP consumers (using HTPs ≥ weekly) who were former or occasional smokers (smoking cigarette < weekly). Respondents were asked to report the reason(s) they used HTPs, with 25 possible reasons for HTP-cigarette consumers and 22 for exclusive HTP consumers. The most common reasons for initiating HTP use among all HTP consumers were out of curiosity (58.9%), family and friends use HTPs (45.5%), and they like the HTP technology (35.9%). The most common reasons for regularly using HTPs among all HTP consumers were that they were less smelly than cigarettes (71.3%), HTPs are less harmful to own health than cigarettes (48.6%), and stress reduction (47.4%). Overall, 35.4% of HTP-cigarette consumers reported using HTPs to quit smoking, 14.7% to reduce smoking but not to quit, and 49.7% for other reasons besides quitting or reducing smoking. In conclusion, several common reasons for initiating and regularly using HTPs were endorsed by all HTP consumers who were smoking, had quit smoking completely, or occasionally smoked. Notably, only about one-third of HTP-cigarette consumers said they were using HTPs to quit smoking, suggesting that most had no intention of using HTPs as an aid to quit smoking in South Korea.
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spelling pubmed-100488022023-03-29 Reasons for Initiation and Regular Use of Heated Tobacco Products among Current and Former Smokers in South Korea: Findings from the 2020 ITC Korea Survey Seo, Hong Gwan Xu, Steve S. Li, Grace Gravely, Shannon Quah, Anne C. K. Lee, Sungkyu Lim, Sujin Cho, Sung-il Kim, Yeol Lee, Eon Sook Choi, Yoon-Jung Miller, Connor R. Goniewicz, Maciej L. O’Connor, Richard J. Fong, Geoffrey T. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article South Korea is the world’s second-largest heated tobacco product (HTP) market after Japan. HTP sales in South Korea have increased rapidly since May 2017, accounting for 10.6% of the total tobacco market in 2020. Despite this, little is known as to why HTP consumers who were current and former smokers started using HTPs and used them regularly. We analyzed cross-sectional data for 1815 adults (aged 19+) who participated in the 2020 International Tobacco Control (ITC) Korea Survey, of whom 1650 were HTP-cigarette consumers (those who reported smoking cigarettes and using HTPs ≥ weekly) and 165 were exclusive HTP consumers (using HTPs ≥ weekly) who were former or occasional smokers (smoking cigarette < weekly). Respondents were asked to report the reason(s) they used HTPs, with 25 possible reasons for HTP-cigarette consumers and 22 for exclusive HTP consumers. The most common reasons for initiating HTP use among all HTP consumers were out of curiosity (58.9%), family and friends use HTPs (45.5%), and they like the HTP technology (35.9%). The most common reasons for regularly using HTPs among all HTP consumers were that they were less smelly than cigarettes (71.3%), HTPs are less harmful to own health than cigarettes (48.6%), and stress reduction (47.4%). Overall, 35.4% of HTP-cigarette consumers reported using HTPs to quit smoking, 14.7% to reduce smoking but not to quit, and 49.7% for other reasons besides quitting or reducing smoking. In conclusion, several common reasons for initiating and regularly using HTPs were endorsed by all HTP consumers who were smoking, had quit smoking completely, or occasionally smoked. Notably, only about one-third of HTP-cigarette consumers said they were using HTPs to quit smoking, suggesting that most had no intention of using HTPs as an aid to quit smoking in South Korea. MDPI 2023-03-11 /pmc/articles/PMC10048802/ /pubmed/36981869 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064963 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Seo, Hong Gwan
Xu, Steve S.
Li, Grace
Gravely, Shannon
Quah, Anne C. K.
Lee, Sungkyu
Lim, Sujin
Cho, Sung-il
Kim, Yeol
Lee, Eon Sook
Choi, Yoon-Jung
Miller, Connor R.
Goniewicz, Maciej L.
O’Connor, Richard J.
Fong, Geoffrey T.
Reasons for Initiation and Regular Use of Heated Tobacco Products among Current and Former Smokers in South Korea: Findings from the 2020 ITC Korea Survey
title Reasons for Initiation and Regular Use of Heated Tobacco Products among Current and Former Smokers in South Korea: Findings from the 2020 ITC Korea Survey
title_full Reasons for Initiation and Regular Use of Heated Tobacco Products among Current and Former Smokers in South Korea: Findings from the 2020 ITC Korea Survey
title_fullStr Reasons for Initiation and Regular Use of Heated Tobacco Products among Current and Former Smokers in South Korea: Findings from the 2020 ITC Korea Survey
title_full_unstemmed Reasons for Initiation and Regular Use of Heated Tobacco Products among Current and Former Smokers in South Korea: Findings from the 2020 ITC Korea Survey
title_short Reasons for Initiation and Regular Use of Heated Tobacco Products among Current and Former Smokers in South Korea: Findings from the 2020 ITC Korea Survey
title_sort reasons for initiation and regular use of heated tobacco products among current and former smokers in south korea: findings from the 2020 itc korea survey
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10048802/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36981869
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20064963
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