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Expert: Smoking Increases the Potential of Contracting Covid-19

Jakarta: A specialist in heart and blood vessels, Vito Anggarino Damay, said smoke increase the potential for infection virus Crown (covid-19). People are urged to live a healthy lifestyle so as not to be infected with this dangerous virus.

“In the smoke (of cigarettes) there are inflammatory cells that cause our body’s defense capacity to decrease,” said Vito in a written statement, Thursday, November 12, 2020.

According to him, the risk of transmission arises when a person has to remove a mask to smoke. This is exacerbated by the habit of smoking in groups without paying attention to the need to maintain a safe distance.


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Vito said smoking together while chatting allows droplets to come out of the mouth. There is the potential for the corona virus to enter from the hand into the body when holding a cigarette.

In addition, smoking damages the lungs as the respiratory tract that is vulnerable to being attacked by the corona virus. Smokers infected with Covid-19 will have a harder time recovering.

“Smokers have a higher mortality and severity rate than covid-19 patients who are not smokers,” explained Vito.

Vulnerability to covid-19 also afflicts passive smoking. Vito also invited the public to actively move so that the body’s circulation would run smoothly so that the immune cells became stronger.

“So in the end we can also protect our bodies as a whole to be strong against disease and the risk of heart disease at the same time,” said Vito.

(OGI)
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