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Comment
. 2020 Jun 4;55(6):2001290.
doi: 10.1183/13993003.01290-2020. Print 2020 Jun.

Current smoking is not associated with COVID-19

Marco Rossato  1 , Lucia Russo  2 , Sara Mazzocut  2 , Angelo Di Vincenzo  2 , Paola Fioretto  2 , Roberto Vettor  2
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Current smoking is not associated with COVID-19

Marco Rossato et al. Eur Respir J. .

Abstract

Despite the main complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection regard lung involvement, the prevalence of current smoking in COVID-19 patients is very low, thus questioning the role of coexisting active smoking as a risk factor for COVID-19 pneumonia https://bit.ly/3eUnl1R

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Conflict of interest: M. Rossato has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: L. Russo has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: S. Mazzocut has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: A. Di Vincenzo has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: P. Fioretto has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: R. Vettor has nothing to disclose.

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