Smoking contributes to the development of a severe form of coronavirus. This was stated by the representative of the World Health Organization in Belarus Batyr Berdyklychev on the air of the program "Markov. Nothing personal" on ONT. Commenting on the information that appeared on social networks that among the infected COVID-19 people were the majority of non-smokers, and smokers were only about 2%, Berdyklychev noted that there is no scientific evidence that would confirm this, and called such "news Infodemy. "Here you can use the word infodemia. Information of such a plan falls into this category. First, there is no scientific research that would confirm any benefit of smoking for the prev... [Read more]