Afraid of COVID19? Stop smoking! Tobacco & COVID19 with Dr. Farzad Moazed

Join for a conversation with Dr. Farzad Moazed, MD, who has studied the impacts of tobacco on the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), which is the dreaded fulminant respiratory failure that can be seen from severe viral illnesses like influenza and COVID19. Listen and learn!

What Can you Do?

1- Support people to quit smoking and vaping- do this in every way you can. If you smoke, go to the Tobacco and Veterans post to learn more about how to quit. If you don’t, donate to the ALA or the Campaign for Tobacco Free kids (on Invest part of site). Wear a T-shirt telling people not to light things on fire and breathe them into their lungs.

2- Support tobacco taxes- honestly, I generally vote for tobacco taxes, even if I don’t like the design, because I will take anything that helps get this scourge out of people's lives. The best ones go only to funding cessation programs and healthcare, and I think Measure 108 in Oregon fits that bill. Learn more about its design in my conversation with Cyreena Boston Ashby, and by going here. If nobody is working on one in your state or community, or if there is a carve-out for vaping, be the person in your community who works on it. We can stop when it is $16/pack or higher, or everyone just quits smoking.

Twitchy Airways Club Members-

1- if you smoke, please get help to quit. You can find resources here, and support and motivation from my conversation with veteran Brandy Carpenter. Also feel free to get in touch with me via the website or Instagram if you need more resources or have questions.

2- use your voice as someone with lung disease to talk about the importance of healthy air! You can learn more at the Tobacco & Vaping section.

3- Speak up for your own health- if someone is smoking or vaping around you, you can ask them to make choices that preserve healthy air for you. If you are willing to share that you have lung disease, you can, or you can just remind them that healthy air is good for everyone

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