No double-edged sword and no doubt about the relation between smoking and COVID-19 severity

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Via Mario Negri 2, 20156 Milan, Italy. Electronic address: silvano.gallus@marionegri.it.
² Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Via Mario Negri 2, 20156 Milan, Italy.
³ Oncologic network, prevention and research Institute (ISPRO), Florence, Italy.

Comment

Silvano Gallus et al. Eur J Intern Med. 2020 Jul.

. 2020 Jul:77:33-35.

doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2020.06.014. Epub 2020 Jun 13.

¹ Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Via Mario Negri 2, 20156 Milan, Italy. Electronic address: silvano.gallus@marionegri.it.
² Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Via Mario Negri 2, 20156 Milan, Italy.
³ Oncologic network, prevention and research Institute (ISPRO), Florence, Italy.

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Active smoking is not associated with severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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