Heaviest Smokers - Marines, Koreans, Trannies and Gays

What do United States Marines, Korean men, homosexuals and transsexuals have in common? No, seriously!

They are more likely than other people in California to smoke, a new study finds.

More than one in four Korean men smoked, the study found, a rate 46% higher than for California men overall. Only half of California's Korean households were smoke-free, compared with about 77% for other California households.

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Smoking among the military as a whole was higher than average, and Marines had by far the highest tobacco use rate: nearly 27%.

The gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community reported smoking rates of 30.4%, nearly twice the 15.4% rate for the general population. Gay men smoked at twice the rate of other men among the California general population.

"The data for lesbian and bisexual women is even worse," said Larry Bye, vice president of the Field Research Corp., which assisted in the studies, overseen by the Department of Health Services. "Lesbian and bisexual women are smoking at almost three times the rate of women in general."

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