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March 10th, 2023 
Awake Goy Pandemic public measures such as lockdown may have made it harder for Australians wanting to quit smoking and even led people to resort to smoking as a way to reduce stress during the early stages of COVID-19.
That is the speculation of a group of researchers from the University of Queensland’s Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences (QAEHS).
In a new study published on March 9, the researchers found that nicotine consumption in the first half of 2020 rose significantly (30 percent) compared to the second half of 2019.
“This increase coincides with Australia’s first wave of COVID-19 cases, which saw the implementation of public health policies such as lockdowns, social distancing and working from home,” said lead author Phong Thai, the Associate Professor from the QAEHS…. Source
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