Hirosaki City announced the results of a "questionnaire on health promotion" for citizens on December 21st.

This questionnaire is aimed at understanding the status of smoking and the actual conditions of cancer screening in order to promote health. During the survey period from November 7th to 22nd, we collected a questionnaire by mail from 2500 randomly selected citizens aged 20 years and older and 500 business establishments with 10 or more employees located in the city.

According to the same questionnaire, the smoking rate of Hirosaki citizens was 29.0% for men, 10.6% for women, and 18.4% for men and women. Comparing with the results of the “national tobacco smoker rate survey” conducted by JT every year, the figures are almost the same: male = 28.2%, female = 9.0%, and total male and female = 18.2%.

70.8% of non-smoking people answered that they would like to quit smoking sometime. Compared to the survey conducted two years ago, it has increased by 10%. 83.1% of the respondents said they knew “knowing” about second-hand smoke, and 78.6% in the same survey two years ago, so the results are well known.

In the questionnaire to the establishments, the response result of "Nothing in particular" about the status of efforts to prevent second-hand smoke has changed significantly from 16.9% two years ago to 33.5%, increasing the number of establishments that install smoking areas and smoking facilities. I found out that On the other hand, at workplaces that banned smoking, “smoking outside the facility” became an issue, and the result increased from 14.3% to 34.8% compared to the survey conducted two years ago.

Mr. Shigeyuki Nakaji, a specially appointed professor of the Hirosaki City Tobacco Health Damage Prevention Council, said that the smoking rate for heating cigarettes was 16.4%, and that 17.9% of smokers are willing to switch to heating cigarettes in the future. Focus on. "I think that heated cigarettes are "weak tobaccos", but there are no chemicals that are different from conventional cigarettes, and there is no evidence yet. It is not known at this time what kind of damage to health is." Mr.

"I hope it can be positioned as a step-up that leads to smoking cessation, but I hope that you will not be conscious that "heated cigarettes are good"".