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2020 has been a very difficult year, and it seems that 2021 is not going to make our lives easier. Many in Israel report anxiety and stress and this causes large percentages of them to smoke more


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The corona has caused many of us to turn to this obscene habit

2020 has been a very difficult year, and it seems that 2021 is not going to make our lives easier.

Many in Israel report anxiety and stress and this causes large percentages of them to smoke more

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The social, economic and health pressures that have gripped many of us over the past year are showing its signs in all sorts of forms.

Data collected in Israel showed that there is a significant increase of tens of percent in smoking during the corona - both of cigarettes and of cannabis.



Data presented at a conference of the School of Public Health of the University of Haifa showed that almost 30 percent of cigarette smokers reported that they smoked more and about 35 percent of cannabis smokers reported that they smoked more.

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As part of the conference of the School of Public Health of the University of Haifa, various studies presented by school researchers during the Corona crisis were presented.

Prof. Little Keinan Boker, Director of the National Center for Disease Control at the Ministry of Health and Senior Researcher at the School of Public Health at the University of Haifa, presented data from a survey in which 2,580 participants participated in two dates: the end of the first wave of the Corona epidemic. In recurrent morbidity and ending in the second closure.

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The results of the survey show that during the second closure period, 12.8 percent reported a state of general anxiety compared to 7.7 percent who reported anxiety at the end of the first closure and removal of restrictions.

It was also found that 21.1 percent reported a decrease in sleep quality, 28.6 percent reported that their weight had increased since the onset of the corona plague and 28.6 percent reported that they smoked more.

More stressed and more smokers.

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The increase in cigarette smoking as mentioned joined the increase in cannabis smoking.

A study conducted by Dr. Sharon Schnittman together with Dr. Nehama Lewis of the Department of Communication, Dr. Dennis Rosenberg of the School of Public Health and in collaboration with the moderators of the 'Cannabis Magazine' forum among 755 cannabis users over the age of 18 who smoke at least once a month, percent of them reported that during the crisis the more they smoked cannabis.



"doctors and people engaged in health promotion in general need to develop specific interventions to understand the origin of the different pressures caused by epidemic of sources to develop coping mechanisms to health so they can avoid an increase in the use of cannabis," Dr. Schnittman.

The connection between smoking and Corona

In addition, just this week a new study was published by King's College London that brings conclusive evidence that smoking exacerbates COVID-19 disease.

The study was published in the journal Thorax, and examined whether there was a link between smoking and COVID-19 severity by analyzing data from a corona symptom monitoring app.

The researchers found that smokers have an increased risk of developing COVID-19 symptoms and that they are more likely to go to hospitals compared to their non-smoking counterparts.



Furthermore, smokers were more likely to report additional COVID-19-related symptoms.

Smokers were 29 percent more likely to report up to five known symptoms of COVID-19, and 50 percent more likely to report more than 10 symptoms, compared with non-smokers.

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