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Comment
. 2020 Jul 16;56(1):2001759.
doi: 10.1183/13993003.01759-2020. Print 2020 Jul.

Smoking, ACE-2 and COVID-19: ongoing controversies

Janice M Leung  1 , Don D Sin  1
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Comment

Smoking, ACE-2 and COVID-19: ongoing controversies

Janice M Leung et al. Eur Respir J. .

Abstract

Smoking increases severity of COVID-19 https://bit.ly/2yWp3jb

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: J.M. Leung has nothing to disclose. Conflict of interest: D.D. Sin reports grants from Merck, personal fees for advisory board work from Sanofi-Aventis and Regeneron, grants and personal fees for research from Boehringer Ingelheim, grants and personal fees for lectures and advisory board work from AstraZeneca, personal fees for lectures and advisory board work from Novartis, outside the submitted work.

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