3
+
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1988
ABOUT AN ABSOLUTE
WHICH SMOKERS,
REACHED A
NEVERTHELESS, THE GOVERNMENT IS CONCERNED INCREASE OF ABOUT 10,500 IN THE NUMBER OF TOTAL of 723,900.
"THERE SHOULD BE NO RELAXATION COMMUNITY OF THE NEED TO STOP SMOKING,
COMM
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IN OUR EFFORTS TO
HE STRESSED.
WARN
THE
WOULD REVIEW THE EXISTING THE SPOKESMAN SAID THE GOVERNMENT
MOMENTUM POLICY ON SMOKING AND MAP OUT NEW STRATEGIES TO INCREASE THE OF THE ANTI-SMOKING CAMPAIGN.
"A CONSULTATION
ON EXERCISE BASED
THE RECOMMENDATIONS
HEALTH IS SCHEDULED
PUT
FORWARD BY THE HONG KONG COUNCIL ON SMOKING AND TO COMMENCE EARLY NEXT YEAR, HE SAID.
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WAS
AND STATISTICS
THE SURVEY ON SMOKING HABITS, COVERING SOME 14,000 PEOPLE, THE FIFTH OF ITS KIND CONDUCTED BY THE CENSUS DEPARTMENT AS PART OF THE GENERAL HOUSEHOLD SURVEY IN JULY THIS YEAR.
SPOKESMAN TURNING TO OTHER ASPECTS OF THE SURVEY FINDINGS, THE
NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE SAID THE GOVERNMENT WAS PLEASED THAT BOTH THE OF YOUNG SMOKERS (AGED 15 TO 19) HAD DECLINED.
DOWN FROM 17,300 IN PERCENTAGE ALSO DECREASED FROM
THE NUMBER OF THIS GROUP OF SMOKERS WAS 1986 TO 15,700 THIS YEAR, WHILE THE FOUR PER CENT TO 3.4 PER CENT.
INCREASE
HOWEVER, THE SPOKESMAN POINTED OUT THAT A SIGNIFICANT IN THE NUMBER OF YOUNG FEMALE SMOKERS WARRANTED SPECIAL ATTENTION.
SMOKERS WAS ONLY 900 AND THE HAD RISEN TO
IN 1982, THE NUMBER OF THESE PERCENTAGE 0.4 PER CENT, BUT THE CORRESPONDING FIGURES 3,000 AND 1.3 PER CENT THIS YEAR.
"TEENAGERS, ESPECIALLY FEMALE
MAJOR TARGET FOR THE ANTI-SMOKING CAMPAIGN,
MEANWHILE, ALL
FIVE
YOUNG SMOKERS, MUST REMAIN A
**
HE SAID.
1982
SINCE SURVEYS
TENDENCY TO SMOKE GENERALLY INCREASED WITH AGE SPOKESMAN POINTED OUT.
AMONG MALES, THERE WAS
AN
ABRUPT
THAT THE REVEALED FOR BOTH SEXES, THE
INCREASE
IN
THE
RATE
DAILY SMOKING AFTER THEIR TEENS FROM 5.5 PER CENT OF THOSE AGED 15 19 TO 22.4 PER CENT OF THOSE AGED 20 TO 29.
THE RATE GRADUALLY ROSE TO A PEAK OF 41.7 PER CENT
CENT IN THE TO 59 AGE GROUP AND THEN DROPPED TO 35.2 PER PEOPLE AGED 60 AND ABOVE.
OF
ΤΟ
IN THE 50 GROUP OF
1.3 PRR TO 3.8 AGE
FOR FEMALES, THE RATE OF DAILY SMOKING RANGED BETWEEN CENT AND TWO PER CENT AMONG THOSE AGED BELOW 50. IT INCREASED
PER CENT IN THE PER CENT IN THE 50 TO 59 AGE GROUP AND TO 7.3
GROUP 60 AND ABOVE.
/THE SURVEY