Almost 20% of Portuguese drink daily and 14.1% smoke every day.

Nearly 20% of Portugal’s population over 16 drink alcohol daily, rising to 33.7% among retirees, and 14.1% smoke every day, according to data released this Friday by the National Institute of Statistics.

Data from the INE Living Conditions and Income Survey 2022 show that daily consumption “was significantly higher in men (31.5%) than in women (8.5%) and among the elderly, with a higher percentage in the 65 year old group. up to 74 years (34.7%)”.

Nearly 20% of the population aged 16 and over reported drinking alcoholic beverages daily in the 12 months prior to the survey, while 18.4% drank it several times a week, 12.3% several times a month (but not weekly) and 14.2% of the respondents. %, less often (several times a year) and 35.8% reported that they did not drink alcoholic beverages during this period.

“The proportion of people who drink alcohol daily and with less than basic education is more than twice the proportion of people with a tertiary education,” INE reports, noting that 33.7% of retirees indicated that they drink alcoholic beverages every day. days, which is much higher than in the active population (15.7% in the case of the employed and 15.4% in the case of the unemployed).

In an analysis of tobacco use, INE concluded that 14.1% of the population aged 16 years and older smoked daily, slightly lower than the result obtained from the 2019 National Health Survey (14.2%) .

Use was casual in 2% of the population, and the spread of regular tobacco use was more frequent among men (19.7%) than among women (9.2%), in persons aged 25 to 64 years (between 18% and 21 %) and among the population with completed secondary education (17.2%).