A new survey finds that Koreans smoke less but drink more now than in the past.

The finding was issued Monday by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

According to the survey, 45 percent of Korean men and five percent of Korean women smoke. That’s a sharp slide from ten years ago when the smoking rate stood at 66 percent for men and six percent for women.

But the age when men first started to smoke declined from 20-point-eight in 1998 to 19-point-one last year.

The rate of Koreans drinking more than one bottle of soju per month rose to 47 percent last year from 44 percent in 2005. Koreans’ average annual per-person consumption of the liquor stood at eight-point-one liters, or 22-and-a-half bottles.