Smoking is Associated with COVID-19 Progression: A Meta-Analysis.

Published in: medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences (2020)

Smoking is a risk factor for progression of COVID-19, with smokers having higher odds of COVID-19 progression than never smokers. Physicians and public health professionals should collect data on smoking as part of clinical management and add smoking cessation to the list of practices to blunt the COVID-19 pandemic.

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smoking cessation
coronavirus disease
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