Americans drank, smoked more in pandemic: study
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Americans drank alochol and smoked cigarettes more during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers say.
"We found that regulations to restrict non-essential activities and stay-at-home orders during the pandemic have had profoundly negative impacts on multiple lifestyle behaviors in American adults," Dr. Liwei Chen, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health associate professor of epidemiology and lead author of the study, said in a UCLA release. "As bad as these changes have been for all Americans, they disproportionately impact racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S., who already bear a higher disease burden from COVID-19."
In order to reach these conclusions, the authors conducted a survey called the Health, Ethnicity, and Pandemic (HEAP) Study in October 2020 among adults.