Abstract
This study examines the impact of the largest cigarette price increase policy in Korean history in 2015 on the smoking behavior of middle-aged and elderly individuals. The smoking behavior of middle-aged and elderly individuals is important because their proportion is increasing as Korean society enters an aging society, and considering the addictive nature of smoking, the behavior of individuals with longer smoking periods may differ. To investigate this, data from the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (KLoSA) from the 3rd to the 6th wave were used. In order to consider the decreasing trend in smoking rates that had been occurring even before the policy implementation, regression analysis was conducted, including the pre-policy period of six years. The results showed that without considering the time trend, the smoking rate decreased by 0.5 percentage points. However, when considering the time trend, no significant decrease in smoking rate was found. Similarly, there was no significant decrease in smoking quantity due to the cigarette price increase policy.
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