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Since 2013, Brazil has experienced an increase in the consumption of alcoholic beverages, especially among women. However, smoking has been withdrawn. This is what the fourth stage of the 2019 National Health Survey (PNS) shows, published on Wednesday (18) by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).
According to the survey, 26.4% of the population over 18 years of age consumed alcohol one or more times a week in 2019. In 2013, this percentage was 23.9%. The survey was conducted in the second half of 2019, when at least one resident over 18 years of age was interviewed in 108,000 households in the country.
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When disaggregating the data by sex, the IBGE identified that this habit prevailed among 37.1% of men, a rate that drops to 17% among women. Despite the difference, the previous edition of the PNS, in 2013, identified that this percentage was only 12.9% for the female audience.
“Although the consumption of alcoholic beverages has increased online and is still much lower in the case of women, the advance of this habit among them was greater. That was what pulled the global figure, ”explains Gustavo Fontes, an analyst at IBGE.
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In the case of alcohol, the specialist also highlights that it is much more widespread among people with higher educational levels, which contradicts the correlation between information and healthy habits. In fact, according to IBGE, 36% of people with completed higher education consume alcohol one or more times a week, a percentage that falls with each level of lower education, until reaching 19% for the public without education, or incomplete primary education.
The IBGE also found that 17.1% of the people had practiced alcohol abuse in the 30 days prior to the survey and a similar portion, 17% had driven just after drinking in the previous 12 months. to the institute’s approach.
On a different trajectory smoking fell in Brazil. According to IBGE, in 2019, about 20.4 million Brazilians, 12.8% of the population aged 18 years or over, were consumers of tobacco products. In 2013, this percentage was 14.9%.
Last year, 16.2% of men smoked, while among women, that number drops to 9.8%.. In 2013, these percentages were 19.1% and 11.2% respectively.
For tobacco, the correlation between level of education and level of consumption prevailed: only 7.1% of the most educated smoked in 2019, while among the least educated group, this proportion reached 17.6%.
For Fontes, the generalized drop in smoking rates in Brazil reflects the accumulation and success of public policies such as anti-smoking advertising and restrictions on smoking indoors.
