Prevalence
The smoking rate in Japan has been on the decline. A nationwide Internet survey published in 2006 by goo Research on the subject of tobacco showed 23.1% of respondents smoke every day. In 2008 the smoking rate of Japanese men dropped to a record low of 36.8 percent and the rate for women dropped to 9.1 percent.
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