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  1. Vienna Wai-yin Lai
  1. Correspondence to Vienna Wai-yin Lai, Executive Director, Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health, HKSAR, China; vlai{at}cosh.org.hk

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Hong Kong started to collect smoking prevalence data from 1982. Male smoking prevalence in Hong Kong is decreasing, from 39.7% in 1982 to 19.9% in 2010. Thus, Hong Kong's smoking trend for male smokers appears similar to those of Australia and the USA. It is likely that our male smoking is at present at stage 3 of the model, in which …

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