University of Alabama at Birmingham: How smoking could impact health complications with COVID-19 illness

University of Alabama at Birmingham: How smoking could impact health complications with COVID-19 illness. “Smoking cigarettes poses an increased risk of respiratory infections and weakens the immune system, experts say. Recent studies have demonstrated that the impact of smoking on one’s health intensifies if COVID-19 is contracted. The CDC reports that smoking is one of the risk factors of severe COVID illness.”