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Dear Editor,
We have read with interest the recently published paper by Beronja et al. reporting the clinical outcomes in a group of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 being current smokers or not and concluding that a history of cigarette smoking (past or active) is an independent factor for negative prognosis in COVID-19 patients...
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Rossato, Marco, and Angelo Di Vincenzo. 2025. “Comments on ‘Smoking Patterns and Outcomes of Severe SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Retrospective Cohort study’”. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, March. https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2025.3430.
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