Quebecers have been smoking and drinking a lot less in the past month than during the second peak of the pandemic at the beginning of the year, indicates the latest survey by the province’s public health institute.
9 survey, the Institut national de santé publique du Québec reported that 22 per cent of respondents had smoked in the previous month.
But in the last two surveys by the INSPQ — taken as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations started to drop in Quebec — the proportion of survey respondents saying they had smoked had dropped by half.
But in the July 5 survey, 64 per cent said they drank alcohol in the past week and 45 per cent had consumed to excess.
9, 13 per cent on March 9, 12 per cent on May 4 and 13 per cent on July 5.
This may be because the first part of the INSPQ surveys have focused on cannabis and include statistics on perceptions by respondents on whether their use of the drug had increased since before the pandemic.
In the survey taken from June 11 to June 23, 87 per cent of respondents said they believed the worst of the crisis was behind them.
Still, the survey observed that support for wearing a mask in public was high despite the drop in COVID-19 cases and the ramp-up in vaccinations.
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