Smoking rate among Japanese medical members stops declining at 6.9% for men Heating tobacco smoking rate increases The Japan Medical Association announced at its regular press conference on March 2 that in a 2024 survey of its members, the smoking rate of 4,139 members was 6.9% for men and 0.9% for women. The smoking rate among women has decreased by 1.2 points since the previous survey four years ago, but the decline for men has stopped by 0.2 points. 【Minoru Fuchimoto】 【Related Article】 Vice President Yoshitaka Kaneita of Japan University, who was entrusted with the survey, and professor of public health in the Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, reported at a press confere... [Read more]