Smoke Cigs, Save Lives:The Remarkable Discovery That Smokers Are Far Less Likely to Contract COVID-1

[Elderberry]

Signs of the Times by Christopher Snowdon Spiked 4/25/2020

Smoke Cigs, Save Lives: The Remarkable Discovery That Smokers Are Far Less Likely to Contract COVID-19

There's not much to laugh about these days, but the news that smokers might be protected from Covid-19 is certainly one of them. With study after study showing that smokers are under-represented in coronavirus wards, the renowned French neuroscientist, Jean-Pierre Changeux, is working on a randomised control trial to test the effect of nicotine patches on Covid-19 patients.

This is far from being a crackpot theory. Changeux has explained his hypothesis at length here. In simple terms, he says that nicotinic acetylcholine receptors play a key role in the development of the disease and that nicotine can put a brake on it. If he is right - and the banter heuristic says he is - it would not only save thousands of lives but would also be one in the eye for the 'public health' groups who have been claiming that smoking and vaping are risk factors for Covid-19.

The quango should have paid more attention to how few smokers were in hospital in the first place. In a country where 27 per cent of adults smoke, only 6.4 per cent of the Covid-19 cases were smokers. This was not a fluke finding. Awkwardly for the anti-smoking lobby, smokers have been strangely under-represented in all the studies for which smoking prevalence data is available. They made up just 1.4 per cent of the cases in Zhang et al, 6.7 per cent in Wan et al, 3.9 per cent in Mo et al, seven per cent in Huang et al, nine per cent in Dong et al, 10 per cent of cases in Yang et al, 1.9 per cent in Guan et al, six per cent in Zhou et al, and 6.4 per cent in Liu et al. In Shi et al, only 8.2 per cent of cases had any smoking history.

Dr Konstantinos Farsalinos of the University of Patras in Greece noticed this phenomenon early on and put a preliminary study online in late March. It noted the 'unusually low prevalence of current smoking was observed among hospitalised Covid-19 patients', which 'does not support the argument that current smoking is a risk factor for hospitalisation for Covid-19, and might suggest a protective role'.

More: https://www.sott.net/article/433257-Smoke-bleep-Save-Lives-The-Remarkable-Discovery-That-Smokers-Are-Far-Less-Likely-to-Contract-COVID-19

[Free Vulcan]

In light of that news I think I'll smoke a cigar.

[corbe]

   Crap, My cigarettes are gonna go up again.

[truth_seeker]

Could it be that many smokers died, before making it to Covid19 days?

Smoking did help them stay slim however.


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[Smokin Joe]

Could it be that many smokers died, before making it to Covid19 days?

Smoking did help them stay slim however.


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Likely not. 60s and up are the risk groups for dying of COVID-19, and in our State, anyway, the peak age group for positive tests is the 30-39 group.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

I smoke a pack a day, baby, and I do it for you.
So you don't have to

                                                     

No stop...stop


I'm no hero.
I'm just doing my duty as an American.

[Smokin Joe]

I still remember the AMA blathering about how tobacco had absolutely "no valid medicinal use".