I think it is actually around 50% these days, and slowly dropping. That goes with my experience of 11 years in Japan anyway.

That one site may have said not to call him Kimutaku, but 120 million Japanese people still do ;) Why, out of interest?

really?

Even with all the jrockers who smoke?

Huh.
Why, what?

The "jrockers" aren't that high a percentage of the population that they would make a big difference to the statistics. Most of the smokers would be ordinary salarymen, manual labourers and university students. I know the stats because I've seen them in newspaper articles here, and I believe them to be true. About half the men in my office when I worked in a large company smoked, but my fiance doesn't, and neither do a lot of our guy friends.

"Why?" meant why does that site say not to call him Kimutaku? Does he not like it?

Anyway, probably moving away from your topic here, and it's your thread, so never mind.

we can take the OT parts to PM's, I guess.

anyway. The site didn't say why not to call him that. I'll try to find that site again.