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No Smoking Day: Cigarette smoke is also responsible for the severity of Kovid-19 infection

 

No Smoking Day: A study led by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Gorakhpur has revealed that exposure to cigarette smoke in non-smokers can lead to severe forms of COVID-19 infection. This first-of-its-kind study in six states found that people exposed to cigarette smoke at home or at work have a higher risk of developing severe COVID-19 infection than people who do not smoke cigarettes. Do not come in contact with the fumes of

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Dr. Surekha Kishore, Executive Director, AIIMS Gorakhpur, said, “The threat to health due to exposure to cigarette smoke is a violation of the basic human right to life.” "Our multi-centre study shows that exposure to cigarette smoke in non-smokers increases the risk of severe COVID-19 infection," he added.

Dr. Kishor said, “I congratulate the government for taking the initiative to amend the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) 2003 and urge it to expedite the process, so that non-smokers can get direct and Indirect exposure to tobacco products can be avoided.

According to experts, there are more than 7,000 chemicals present in cigarette smoke, which are believed to be responsible for lung cancer, heart disease and lung diseases. These diseases increase the severity of Kovid-19 infection. For the study, the researchers included patients aged 18 years or older who were admitted to hospitals due to severe symptoms and were exposed to Kovid-19 infection between January 2020 and February 2022. Extracted the records of

They compared these patients with exposure to cigarette smoke and other health, lifestyle and demographic parameters with patients who had been exposed to coronavirus infection during the same period but had developed only mild or moderate symptoms. The study was conducted on non-smokers, as the serious effects of secondhand smoke were already known in smokers and the researchers wanted to find out the risk of exposure to secondhand smoke in non-smokers.

The study found that people exposed to cigarette smoke at home had a 3.03 times higher risk of developing a severe form of COVID-19. At the same time, the risk of serious infection has been found to be 2.19 times higher in people exposed to cigarette smoke in the office.

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