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Objectives: This study was to investigate the effects of sexual orientation related to sexual intercourse on smoking behavior. Methods: The study includes 33,309 Korean high school students. Of these, 31,213 had no experience of sexual intercourse, 1,739 had sexual intercourse with the heterosexual, 191 had sex with the homosexual, and 166 had sexual intercourse with the bisex. The study used 12th(2016) Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey with complex sample logistic regression. Results: Adjusted confounding variables were analyzed, and it showed that smoking behavior was higher in the group had experienced sexual intercourse. The group had homosexual intercourse (OR=1.84, 95%CI=1.31-2.57) or bisexual intercourse (OR=2.78, 95%CI=2.06-3.76) showed higher risk of smoking behavior than the group had heterosexual intercourse (OR=1.67, 95%CI=1.48-1.90 Conclusions: The study results showed sexual orientation related to sexual intercourse was associated with smoking behavior. Further follow up studies and evaluations are needed.