Heavy smokers face nearly DOUBLE the risk of being hospitalized for COVID-19 or dying compared to people who have never smoked, study finds Researchers looked at more than 7,000 coronavirus patients, including more than 6,000 never-smokers and the rest being current or former smokers Patients who had been smoking at least one pack per day … Read more
A trauma surgeon says lungs of recovered COVID-19 patients look far worse than even those of smokers. Dr Brittany Bankhead-Kendall, an assistant professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, has been treating thousand of people ill with the disease since the pandemic exploded in March. She said X-rays of smokers’ lungs are a bit … Read more
Taking up vaping increases the likelihood that young people will end up smoking traditional cigarettes daily by three fold, a study has warned. US researchers studied data on the evolving tobacco product use of a nationally representative sample of young people aged between 12–24 over four years. The team found that — among those who … Read more
E-cigarettes have the potential to benefit some people, by helping them quit smoking. But scientists still have a lot to learn about whether e-cigarettes are truly effective for quitting smoking and what the long-term risks are. Nicotine is already known to be highly addictive and harm adolescent brain development, which continues into the early to … Read more
Light smokers who have just ONE cigarette a day can be ‘addicted to nicotine’, study claims US experts studied data on 6,700 smokers assessed for tobacco use disorder Two-thirds of those who only smoked 1–4 times a day were addicted, they found However, severer addictions were more common among more regular smokers The findings stress the … Read more
Even people who only light up as little as once a day — and think of themselves as casual smokers — can be addicted to nicotine and in need of treatment, a study said. US experts studied more than 6,700 smokers who had been assessed for addiction — finding that two-thirds of those who smoked … Read more
Record numbers of smokers kick the habit during lockdown as 643,000 people in England quit in 12 months – more than DOUBLE the previous year Data from University College London survey shows smoking rates have dropped It comes after experts said attitudes towards smoking changed by pandemic More than 643,000 smokers in England quit in … Read more
Fewer than one in seven people in Britain are now smokers as rate plummets down from half of adults in the 1970s, says study 6.9 million people in the UK, 14.1 per cent of over 18s smoked a cigarette last year Fifty years ago around half the population were reckoned to be smokers ONS found … Read more
Smokers are less likely to be diagnosed with Covid-19 compared to those who have never touched a cigarette, another study has claimed. An array of research carried out since the pandemic began has shown smokers are at lower risk of getting the coronavirus. Now researchers in Mexico have added more weight to the evidence, which … Read more
Smokers are less likely to test positive for the coronavirus, according to research that offers yet more evidence that the habit may be protective. Since the crisis spiralled out of control, researchers have seen unusually low rates of smokers with Covid-19 in hospitals – suggesting they rarely get severely ill. Now, for what is believed … Read more