TY - JOUR T1 - Carpe covid: using COVID-19 to communicate about harms of tobacco products JF - Tobacco Control JO - Tob Control SP - 397 LP - 398 DO - 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2020-056276 VL - 31 IS - 3 AU - Lucy Popova Y1 - 2022/05/01 UR - http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/31/3/397.abstract N2 - Many of us in the field of tobacco control have asked how the COVID-19 pandemic can be used as an opportunity to motivate people to quit using tobacco products. A paper by Grummon et al 1 (this issue) is, to my knowledge, the first published attempt to empirically answer this question. Emerging research consistently demonstrates that smoking makes COVID-19 outcomes worse,2 although the relationship between smoking and COVID-19 infection is unclear. A recent study showed cross-sectional association between youth and young adult e-cigarette use and COVID-19.3 Thus, more research is needed on how to best inform tobacco users about the increased risk of COVID-19. Grummon et al 1 answer this call by evaluating messages that inform smokers and e-cigarette users (vapers) how smoking or vaping may increase the severity of COVID-19.Grummon et al 1 (this issue) conducted two online experiments (one on smoking and one on vaping) in May 2020 with a national convenience sample of 810 US adults who were current smokers and/or current vapers. Stimuli were messages in the form of tweets from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The … ER -