Coronavirus and smoking: How do cigarettes, pot and vaping affect infections and outcomes?
4 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus and smoking: How do cigarettes, pot and vaping affect infections and outcomes?

LA Times  

Smoking is associated with more severe outcomes for coronavirus patients, a recent study of studies has found. “It’s now pretty clear that there is data to show that if you are a smoker, you’re more likely to have adverse outcomes from COVID-19, need mechanical ventilation and to die than if you’re not a smoker,” said Richard Castriotta, a doctor specializing in pulmonary critical care at Keck Medicine of USC. “It’s like, if you have a stream and you’re putting some clear pollutant in it, and then you drip food coloring in it to see where the stream is going,” Glantz said. “You don’t know how many patients are smokers, who have coronavirus and who are at home doing well,” Melamed said. He said the outcome is less ambiguous for infected smokers: “If you do get it, you’re more likely to go into respiratory failure.” And there’s no question that smoking is bad for your overall health.

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Vaping may increase risk of lung cancer
10 months ago

Vaping may increase risk of lung cancer

The Hindu  

Published : May 23, 2024 22:52 IST - 3 MINS READ People who quit smoking and then took up vaping were more likely to develop lung cancer than those who did not vape, according to the study conducted in South Korea. “This is the first large population-based study to demonstrate the increased risk of lung cancer in e-cigarette users after …

The truth about vaping and your health: We are finally getting answers - and this is why leading experts are getting increasingly worried...
1 year ago

The truth about vaping and your health: We are finally getting answers - and this is why leading experts are getting increasingly worried...

Daily Mail  

When consultant breast surgeon Professor Kefah Mokbel is planning to operate on a patient who vapes, he always asks them to quit a few weeks before the surgery. ‘People who vape also have higher complication rates with problems such as pneumonia and thrombosis, leading to dangerous blood clots – so if someone vapes regularly we tell them to quit to …

How dangerous IS vaping compared with smoking? New review analyzes the dangers of both.... and finds former is linked to EIGHT lung diseases
1 year, 1 month ago

How dangerous IS vaping compared with smoking? New review analyzes the dangers of both.... and finds former is linked to EIGHT lung diseases

Daily Mail  

A review found that vaping is less harmful than smoking traditional cigarettes Vaping is a much safer alternative to cigarettes but will raise your risk of eight lung diseases, according to a major review. However, smoking has long been associated with severe health consequences like lung cancer and heart disease Researchers suggested that 17 million Americans vape regularly They found …

Vaping may ‘wake up’ cancer cells and trigger wave of disease in a decade
2 years, 6 months ago

Vaping may ‘wake up’ cancer cells and trigger wave of disease in a decade

The Independent  

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Vaping increases frequency of Covid symptoms, claims study
3 years, 2 months ago

Vaping increases frequency of Covid symptoms, claims study

India TV News  

People who use electronic cigarettes and test positive for Covid-19 have a higher frequency of experiencing Covid symptoms, compared to people who don't vape, according to new research from Mayo Clinic. "The study was designed to compare the frequency of common Covid-19 symptoms, such as loss of taste or smell, headache, muscle aches and chest tightness in Covid patients who …

Scientists decode how smoking worsens Covid-19 infection
4 years, 4 months ago

Scientists decode how smoking worsens Covid-19 infection

India Today  

Scientists have decoded how smoking cigarettes facilitates more severe lung infection by the novel coronavirus, an advance that may lead to new therapeutic strategies to help reduce smokers' chances of developing severe Covid-19. Since these stem cells were taken from the lungs of healthy, non-smoking tissue donors, the researchers replicated the effects of smoking by exposing the airway cultures to …

Coronavirus: All you need to know about symptoms and risks
4 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus: All you need to know about symptoms and risks

Al Jazeera  

Countries around the world step up efforts to tackle the new coronavirus that has killed hundreds of thousands. As of September 20, more than 957,00 people worldwide have died of COVID-19, the highly infectious respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus. Smoking can make people more susceptible to serious complications from a coronavirus infection, the European Union agency for disease control …

Research shows vaping link to COVID-19; long-term effects of infection in e-cigarette smokers still unknown
4 years, 6 months ago

Research shows vaping link to COVID-19; long-term effects of infection in e-cigarette smokers still unknown

Firstpost  

Experts have warned that the virus in all likelihood capitalizes on the scarred lungs of smokers and vapers. “I have no doubt in saying that smoking and vaping could put people at increased risk of poor outcomes from COVID-19,” said Dr. Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir, a pediatric pulmonologist at Columbia University. “I hate to say it, but if I got the virus, …

Study reveals long-term lung and heart damage in COVID-19 patients can improve with time
4 years, 6 months ago

Study reveals long-term lung and heart damage in COVID-19 patients can improve with time

Hindustan Times  

COVID-19 patients can suffer long-term lung and heart damage but, for many, this tends to improve over time, according to the first, prospective follow-up of patients infected with the coronavirus, presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress. Long-term lung and heart damage in COVID-19 patients can improve with time Researchers in the COVID-19 ‘hot spot’ in the Tyrolean region …

What Happens When A Wildfire Meets A Pandemic
4 years, 7 months ago

What Happens When A Wildfire Meets A Pandemic

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, a dreaded question has hung heavy over Californians: What happens if a bad wildfire season hits and we’re still in the throes of COVID-19? JOSH EDELSON via Getty Images “Now that we have this pandemic, we can’t just put a lot of people in a high school gymnasium, which is …

Vaping makes young people up to seven times more likely to get coronavirus, study finds
4 years, 7 months ago

Vaping makes young people up to seven times more likely to get coronavirus, study finds

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Teens and young adults need to know that if you use e-cigarettes, you are likely …

Smoking linked to higher risk of coronavirus, says WHO
4 years, 8 months ago

Smoking linked to higher risk of coronavirus, says WHO

India Today  

The World Health Organisation says smoking is linked to a higher risk of severe illness and death from the coronavirus in hospitalised patients, although it was unable to specify exactly how much greater those risks might be. In a scientific brief published this week, the UN health agency reviewed 34 published studies on the association between smoking and Covid-19, including …

World No Tobacco Day 2020: How does COVID-19 affect smokers?
4 years, 9 months ago

World No Tobacco Day 2020: How does COVID-19 affect smokers?

Firstpost  

The World Health Organization has stated that smokers could be more vulnerable to COVID-19 as well as to severe symptoms if they contract the infection. This year, like every other, doctors urge tobacco smokers to quit this harmful habit - but the emphasis now is even higher given that it could cause severe symptoms of COVID-19 in some people. Smoking …

Studies that said smokers were at lower risk for coronavirus were likely wrong. Here's why
4 years, 10 months ago

Studies that said smokers were at lower risk for coronavirus were likely wrong. Here's why

Salon  

A new study explains how the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is able to more easily target smokers due to a specific way in which the addictive habit changes their lungs. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories Fellow Jason Sheltzer and Google engineer Joan Smith analyzed previous data findings for their article published earlier this week in the scientific journal "Development Cell." …

Nicotine may not prevent coronavirus infection, WHO cautions
4 years, 10 months ago

Nicotine may not prevent coronavirus infection, WHO cautions

The Hindu  

Urging researchers, scientists and the media to be “cautious about amplifying unproven claims that tobacco or nicotine could reduce the risk of COVID-19”, the World Health Organisation on May 11 issued a statement saying there is “insufficient evidence to confirm any link between tobacco or nicotine for prevention or treatment of COVID-19”. Available research suggests that smokers are at higher …

Fear Of Contracting Coronavirus Propels Some Smokers To Quit
4 years, 10 months ago

Fear Of Contracting Coronavirus Propels Some Smokers To Quit

NPR  

Fear Of Contracting Coronavirus Propels Some Smokers To Quit Enlarge this image toggle caption Tegra Stone Nuess/Getty Images Tegra Stone Nuess/Getty Images In 40 years of smoking, Katie Kennedy has tried four times to quit but always went back to cigarettes. "I just decided it's time to protect my lungs as much as I can," says Kennedy, 59, who started …

Here's how that rumor that smokers can't get COVID-19 got started
4 years, 10 months ago

Here's how that rumor that smokers can't get COVID-19 got started

Salon  

Old cigarette ads often made outrageous claims about cigarettes, including, infamously, that they could cure asthma. They're saying that nicotine prevents it," Dr. William Haseltine, the founder and former CEO of Human Genome Sciences, and currently the chair and president of the global health think tank Access Health International, told Salon regarding an April study in "Comptes rendus biologies" led …

Coronavirus prompting more weed smoking
4 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus prompting more weed smoking

NL Times  

About two fifths of Netherlands residents who smoke weed on a regular basis are now smoking more due to the coronavirus crisis, according to the preliminary results of a Trimbos Institute study. Almost half of the participants in the study told the addiction institute that they're smoking about the same amount of weed than before the coronavirus measures were implemented. …

Coronavirus: People warned not to smoke after French researchers suggest it could protect against infection
4 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus: People warned not to smoke after French researchers suggest it could protect against infection

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Researchers in France have put forward the idea that …

Doctor’s Note: Why are smokers more vulnerable to coronavirus?
4 years, 11 months ago

Doctor’s Note: Why are smokers more vulnerable to coronavirus?

Al Jazeera  

Smoking is one of the leading causes of death in the world, killing more than eight million people a year, according to the World Health Organization. In the United Kingdom, the health secretary, Matt Hancock, has said: “It is abundantly clear from the research into previous coronaviruses that smoking makes the impact of a coronavirus worse.” We do know that …

Smoking pot even just occasionally could increase risk of suffering severe COVID-19 complications
4 years, 11 months ago

Smoking pot even just occasionally could increase risk of suffering severe COVID-19 complications

Daily Mail  

Smoking marijuana even just occasionally could increase your risk of suffering complications from the novel coronavirus. Smoking cannabis, even just occasionally, causes inflammation in the lungs, which could affect the body's ability to fight off COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus Doctors warn that symptoms from smoking marijuana can mimic those of the virus, such as a …

The Scary Relationship Between Vaping And Coronavirus
4 years, 11 months ago

The Scary Relationship Between Vaping And Coronavirus

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING If there was ever a time to quit vaping, it’s now. Because vaping suppresses the lungs’ immune response, it increases the severity and duration of other respiratory infections like bronchitis, influenza and pneumonia, according to Robert Jackler, chair of the department of otolaryngology at Stanford Medicine. Though we’re still learning how vaping may affect one’s risk for …

Does smoking cigarettes, tobacco increase risk of getting infected with coronavirus? WHO says yes
4 years, 11 months ago

Does smoking cigarettes, tobacco increase risk of getting infected with coronavirus? WHO says yes

India TV News  

With the novel coronavirus increasing risk in countries day by day, people are getting conscious about what they should eat and which things should be avoided. Now a new report presented by the World Health Organization states that people who possess tobacco and smoke cigarettes are at a higher risk of getting infected by a coronavirus. Smokers may also already …

Smoking and coronavirus: Why experts say people who smoke fare worse if they get COVID-19
4 years, 11 months ago

Smoking and coronavirus: Why experts say people who smoke fare worse if they get COVID-19

ABC  

Health experts are urging smokers to quit now to reduce their risk of a severe outcome if they get COVID-19. "You are about twice as likely to have severe COVID disease if you are a current or past smoker compared to someone who has never smoked," said Matthew Peters, head of respiratory medicine at Sydney's Concord Hospital. "From everything we …

Qutting smoking could help you fight Covid-19
4 years, 11 months ago

Qutting smoking could help you fight Covid-19

CNN  

CNN — If you’ve been thinking about quitting smoking, there’s no time like the present pandemic. The elderly are at a greater risk for excessive lung fluid that often limits breathing following coronavirus infection because “old folks don’t have a strong enough cough to clear it up,” Christman said. Covid-19 patients frequently experience acute lung injury, which can cause leakiness …

Coronavirus: Does smoking put you at greater or less risk?
4 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus: Does smoking put you at greater or less risk?

Daily Mail  

What is the coronavirus? A study by the Wuhan Institute of Virology, published in February 2020 in the scientific journal Nature, found that the genetic make-up virus samples found in patients in China is 96 per cent identical to a coronavirus they found in bats. Here we're talking about a virus where we don't understand fully the severity spectrum but …

Doctor’s Note: Coronavirus and ‘underlying health conditions’
5 years ago

Doctor’s Note: Coronavirus and ‘underlying health conditions’

Al Jazeera  

What are the underlying health conditions that put you more at risk from coronavirus and how can you protect yourself? It is becoming a bit of a mantra; we hear it whenever anyone is talking about the coronavirus: “The elderly and those with underlying health conditions are most at risk.” But what are these underlying health conditions we should worry …

Vaping death toll hits 60 in the US as the outbreak swells to 2,668 illnesses
5 years, 2 months ago

Vaping death toll hits 60 in the US as the outbreak swells to 2,668 illnesses

Daily Mail  

Sixty people have died in the outbreak of vaping-linked lung illnesses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday. The CDC announced on Thursday that 2,668 people have fallen ill in every US state and 60 people have died in 27 states and DC due to mysterious lung illnesses linked to vaping Most of the victims are male and …

Vaping linked with long-term risk of respiratory disease in new study
5 years, 3 months ago

Vaping linked with long-term risk of respiratory disease in new study

CNN  

CNN — Vaping or using e-cigarettes for a long period of time was associated with an increased risk of respiratory diseases – including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD, chronic bronchitis and asthma – in a new study. “I was a little surprised that we could find evidence on incident lung disease in the longitudinal study, because three years is …

CDC Finds Possible Culprit In Outbreak Of Vaping-Related Lung Injuries
5 years, 4 months ago

CDC Finds Possible Culprit In Outbreak Of Vaping-Related Lung Injuries

NPR  

CDC Finds Possible Culprit In Outbreak Of Vaping-Related Lung Injuries Enlarge this image toggle caption Hans Pennink/AP Hans Pennink/AP Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say there has been a breakthrough in the investigation into the outbreak of vaping-related lung injuries that has led to the deaths of 39 people and sickened more than 2,000 others. Investigators …

Dozens of deaths linked to vaping could be just 'the tip of the iceberg'
5 years, 4 months ago

Dozens of deaths linked to vaping could be just 'the tip of the iceberg'

Daily Mail  

Dozens of deaths linked to vaping could just be 'the tip of the iceberg,' a damning report has warned. A CT scan of a 24-year-old man with a history of e-cigarette use shows alarming abnormalities in his lungs The man had been suffering shortness of breath, a cough, chest pain and fever for a week because of a build-up of …

Even short-term 'vaping' can cause inflammation: Study
5 years, 5 months ago

Even short-term 'vaping' can cause inflammation: Study

India TV News  

E-cigarette use has risen at concerning levels among both smokers and non-smokers and now researchers from the Ohio State University have found that even short-term vaping could cause cellular inflammation in never-smoker adults. Using a procedure called bronchoscopy to test for inflammation and smoking-related effects, researchers reported a measurable increase in inflammation after four weeks of e-cigarette use without nicotine …

As Vaping Illnesses Rise, Doctors Warn Of Possible 'Irreversible Damage' To Lungs
5 years, 6 months ago

As Vaping Illnesses Rise, Doctors Warn Of Possible 'Irreversible Damage' To Lungs

NPR  

As Vaping Illnesses Rise, Doctors Warn Of Possible 'Irreversible Damage' To Lungs Enlarge this image toggle caption alvarez/Getty Images alvarez/Getty Images Nationwide, people who vape continue to sicken with severe and unexplained lung illness, leaving doctors and patients concerned about both the acute and long-term effects of the injuries. But "when these substances enter the lungs, it can cause a …

CDC Launches Probe Into Surge Of Severe Lung Disease Cases Linked To Vaping
5 years, 7 months ago

CDC Launches Probe Into Surge Of Severe Lung Disease Cases Linked To Vaping

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating the sudden emergence of severe lung disease linked to vaping in 14 states. Ninety-four possible cases of severe lung illness associated with vaping were reported from the end of June to Aug. 15, the CDC reported on Saturday. For the first time, we're offering an ad-free experience …

Mystery lung illness linked to vaping reported in nearly 100 people
5 years, 7 months ago

Mystery lung illness linked to vaping reported in nearly 100 people

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy US health officials are investigating around 100 cases of mysterious lung …

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