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More Indonesians smoking, bucking global trend
The report, published on Jan. 16, found that 38.5 percent of Indonesians over the age of 14 used tobacco products in 2022. This was up more than 2 percentage points from the country’s 2020 figure and up 5 percentage points from 2015.
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A vendor sets out cigarette packets in a store in South Tangerang, Banten, on Dec. 19, 2023. (Antara/Rifqi Raihan Firdaus)
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he number of tobacco users in the country has continued to increase, a recent World Health Organization (WHO) report has found, running counter to a global decline tobacco consumption in recent years.
The report, published on Jan. 16, found that 38.5 percent of Indonesians over the age of 14 used tobacco products in 2022. This was up more than 2 percentage points from the country’s 2020 figure and up 5 percentage points from 2015.
The WHO expects the figure to rise to 38.7 percent by the end of the decade.
More than 70 percent Indonesian males over the age of 14 used tobacco in 2022. In 2010, the figure was 63 percent.
The smoking rate of Indonesian women over the age of 14, meanwhile, dropped from 7.2 percent in 2010 to 3.4 percent in 2022.
These increases occurred amid a decline in global tobacco use. The WHO report found that about 21 percent of people worldwide used tobacco in 2022, compared to 26.4 percent in 2010.
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