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Editor's Note: Robert Klitzman is a professor of psychiatry and the director of the bioethics masters program at Columbia University.

On the whole, the theory “has some merits,” said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University who was not involved in the commentary. “But I’m still pretty skeptical.”

“Everything is topsy-turvy right now,” said Michael N. Shadlen, a professor of neuroscience at Columbia University.

“I have no doubt in saying that smoking and vaping could put people at increased risk of poor outcomes from Covid-19,” said Dr. Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir, a pediatric pulmonologist at Columbia.