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COVID-19 Prompts Many Cigarette Smokers to Quit

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   More than 1 million people in the United Kingdom have quit smoking
   since the coronavirus pandemic hit earlier this year, an anti-smoking
   group said.

   Action on Smoking and Health said more than 40% of those surveyed say
   they gave up cigarettes in direct response to the coronavirus.

   A separate poll by University College London found more people quit
   smoking in the first six months of the year than in any full year since
   2007.

   Medical researchers across the globe say COVID-19 symptoms are worse in
   smokers who get the virus than in nonsmokers who get sick.

   U.S. experts say hospitalized smokers with coronavirus are less likely
   to survive.

   Menthol cigarettes

   Also Thursday, the U.S. branch of Action on Smoking and Health joined
   an African American anti-smoking group in filing a court action against
   the Food and Drug Administration.

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