Scientists say its reasonable to assume that smoking or vaping could make COVID-19 symptoms more severe once infected, according to Scientific American.<\/p>\n
To be clear, a direct link has yet to be investigated by researchers but theres plenty of evidence that smoking or vaping suppress immune function in the lungs and trigger inflammation.<\/p>\n
Scientists have also found that more severe COVID-19 cases were associated with chronic lung conditions which in turn is linked to smokers and vapers as well. Some preliminary studies in China have found links between more severe COVID-19 cases and a history of smoking, but its too early to draw conclusions as many of them still await peer review.<\/p>\n
All these things make me believe that we are going to have more severe casesespecially [in] people who are [long-term] smokers or vapers, said Melodi Pirzada, chief of pediatric pulmonology at NYU Winthrop Hospital on Long Island, to Scientific American.<\/p>\n
Theres a very coordinated series of events that take place when you do become infected with a virus, associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of North Carolina Ray Pickles told Scientific American. I think once you start perturbing this sequence of events in any which way or direction, thats when things can go awry.<\/p>\n
Scientists have found plenty of evidence for smoking being a risk factor for influenza. The link to vaping, however, is definitely less clear on the matter. Mice studies have found a link between e-cigarette aerosol lowering the chances of surviving influenza A, a common influenza virus.<\/p>\n
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