Alcohol use, heat-not-burn tobacco and cigarette smoking decrease antibody response to Pfizer COVID vaccine

The effects of heat-not-burn tobacco products, cigarette smoking, and alcohol use lowered the antibody response to the Pfizer BNT162b2 vaccine. That’s the summary of the study from Tokyo, Japan. The study was published recently at medRxiv. The goal of the Pfizer COVID vaccine is to increase the antibodies against the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2…