Open AccessRelationship of Smoking and COVID-19: Myths and Reality
Author(s) -
Ranjan Ghosh,
Supratim Ghosh,
Debarati Ray
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
saudi journal of oral and dental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2518-1300
pISSN - 2518-1297
DOI - 10.36348/sjodr.2022.v07i04.003
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , disease , virus diseases , nobody , virus , medicine , incidence (geometry) , intensive care medicine , virology , environmental health , infectious disease (medical specialty) , pathology , outbreak , computer science , computer security , physics , optics
The alarming spread of novel corona virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has resulted to an ongoing pandemic of corona virus disease since 2019. Due to this the virus is popularly known as Covid 19 virus. The world has not been able to get rid of this disease and we are into the fourth wave. There have been numerous changes in the nature of the disease but it is still causing major disruptions all over the world. Tobacco use as smoking is a major cause of mortality as well as morbidity around the world. Nobody can dispute the ill effects of smoking on health. Surprisingly, there have been few reports about low incidence of smokers among Covid 19 patients. This article aims to review available literature on the subject and try to clear the misconceptions on this topic.