Overview
Taking place on World No Tobacco Day (31 May), this live discussion focused on current and emerging issues related to smoking and COVID-19.
A panel of experts discussed key areas, including:
- Evidence for increased susceptibility of smokers to COVID-19
- COVID-19 and the interference of the tobacco industry
- Smoking cessation – perspectives from low- and middle-income countries
Panel
- Jonathan Grigg, Chair of the ERS Tobacco Control Committee
- Linnea Hedman, Member of the ERS Tobacco and Control Committee
- Sukhwinder Sohal, Head of the Respiratory Translational Research Group and Senior Lecturer in Laboratory Medicine at the University of Tasmania
- Tom Hird, Research Fellow with the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath
- Richard van Zyl-Smit, Deputy Head of the Division of Pulmonology at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town