According to the latest public health barometer France, the health crisis linked to the COVVI-19 has had an impact on these two populations.
by Nathalie Brafman
Did the health crisis linked to the Pandemic of Covid-19 had an impact on tobacco consumption? This is the hypothesis that Public Health France (SPF) makes in its latest barometer on the prevalence of smoking in France in 2021, published Monday December 12.
“An impact of the social and economic crisis linked to the COVVI-19 which followed cannot be excluded concerning the interruption of the decline in the prevalence of smoking in France and the increase observed among certain populations”, explains SPF in His note. Between 2014 and 2019, an unprecedented decrease had however been observed in France among adults (from 28.5 % to 24 %).
According to SPF, the number of smokers is estimated at 15 million in France, including 12 million daily smokers. Of this total, there are 5.5 million daily smokers – some 7 million, if we include occasional smokers. After a sharp decrease between 2017 and 2019, female smoking went upwards, in all age groups, except among 25-34 year olds, the age where a maternity is often envisaged and where The incentive not to start smoking or stopping is strong.
The new SPF figures do not fail to alert. The survey, conducted by Ipsos from February 11 to December 15, 2021 among 24,514 people aged 18 to 85, reveals, in fact, an increase in daily smoking between 2019 and 2021 among women (from 20.7 % to 23 %) and among the least qualified (29 %to 32 %). “The weight of the various confinements undoubtedly had an impact on the smoking of these two categories of people for whom cigarettes is a way to relieve stress,” says François Beck, director of prevention and promotion of health At SPF.
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During the various confinements, numerous studies have shown that women have been particularly affected by the economic impacts of the crisis caused by the Pandemic of Covid-19. Several Coconel surveys (Coronavirus and Confainment: Longitudinal Survey) carried out by the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED) highlighted the fact that they presented signs of psychological distress than in men, that they had Known a degradation of their working conditions, and, for those who were remotely removing, had a room less often for them. Not to mention the school pressure at home and daily management.
Another teaching of the SPF barometer: between 2019 and 2021, the prevalence of tobacco also increased among the least graduates, to 32 % against 29 %, while it is only 17 % among holders of a Diploma greater than the baccalaureate. In addition, the more high income we have, the less we smoke. Among 18-64 year olds, smoking is more important among unemployed people than among assets (45.7 % against 26.6 %).
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