”Smokers” have decreased significantly in 10 years...from ”23.2%” to ”15.4%” = South Korea

In South Korea, the proportion of people aged 15 and older who smoke cigarettes every day has decreased significantly over the past 10 years.
According to documents from the Ministry of Health and Welfare (Ministry) and the Disease Control Agency, in 2021, “every day for people aged 15 and over
The percentage of people who smoked cigarettes was 15.4%. This is a 7.8% decrease from 23.2% ten years ago (2011).
In 2014, ``2 out of 10'' South Korean citizens (aged 15 and older) smoked cigarettes every day. But from the following year
The percentage of people who smoke every day has fallen below 20%, stagnated at 17.5% from 2017 to 2018, and has been gradually decreasing every year since 2019 (16.4%).
On the other hand, in 2021, the smoking rate (26.3%) for men (15 years and older) is about six times that of women (4.5%), but the decline compared to 10 years ago is 1% for men.
It was found that the decline was more than twice as high for men as for women, at 5.3% and 0.6% for women.