Tobacco smoking confers risk for severe COVID‐19 unexplainable by pulmonary imaging

J. Li, X. Long, Q. Zhang, X. Fang, N. Li, B. Fedorova, S. Hu, Jh Li, N. Xiong, Z. Lin

Journal of internal medicine, 2020

COVID‐19 is a new pneumonia. It has been hypothesized that tobacco smoking history may increase severity of this disease in the patients once infected by the underlying coronavirus SARS‐CoV‐2 because smoking and COVID‐19 both cause lung damage. However, this hypothesis has not been tested.

Cited by 2 publications.

Field of study: Medicine

10.1111/joim.13190