COVID-19 and smoking habits: a smoky situation!

Monaldi Arch Chest Dis. 2020 Nov 23;90(4). doi: 10.4081/monaldi.2020.1539.

Abstract

Dear Editor, the issues recently raised by Carratù et al. on the role of smoking/former smoking in patients hospitalized for COVID-19 all around the world as widely reported in many different published papers, are important for different reasons...

MeSH terms

  • COVID-19 / complications*
  • COVID-19 / epidemiology
  • COVID-19 / virology
  • Humans
  • Prevalence
  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / epidemiology
  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / etiology
  • SARS-CoV-2 / isolation & purification*
  • Severity of Illness Index
  • Smoking / adverse effects*
  • Smoking / epidemiology
  • Smoking / psychology