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While smoking is associated with worse outcomes among infected individuals, this does not address mechanisms governing initial viral acquisition at the mucosal surface
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Moreover, to the extent that people who smoke simply add e-cigarettes to their cigarette smoking (becoming so-called dual users), their risk of heart disease, lung disease, and cancer could increase compared with smoking alone. The question we explored is of both scientific interest and public health interest, said Wang, assistant professor of medicine, and we hope that the FDA will pay attention to our study as they try to make these decisions. Wang was joined in the study by cofirst author Sudhamayi Bhadriraju, MD, a former UCSF postdoctoral fellow who is now a pulmonologist at Kaiser Permanente in Redwood City, Calif., and senior author Stanton A