31/05/2021 10:36
Smoking causes harder course of COVID-19, raises hospitalization risk - study
May 31 is marked as World Day Without Cigarettes and the year’s slogan is “Its time to stop smoking,” Armenia’s Ministry of Healthcare reports.
According to the research, each year over 5,500 Armenians die because of smoking, of which 52% under 70.
14% of the people in risk group of COVID-19 in Armenia out of 855,000 have concomitant diseases caused by smoking which make them have graver course of the disease and increases the risk of the hospitalization need.