Posted on 08/12/2020 5:42:56 PM PDT by EarlyBird
Researchers at the University of Washington and Stanford University School of Medicine have reported a significant inverse relationship between current smoking and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality rates across forty countries.
However, David Haynor and the team say the difference in mortality rates between countries with the highest and lowest national smoking prevalence seems too large to be mainly accounted for by the effects of smoking. They suspect unidentified confounding factors could still be responsible for any perceived protective effect of smoking.
However, the magnitude of the association observed and the wide-ranging implications this could have highlighted the importance of the further investigation, say the researchers.
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These researchers can’t believe that smoking prevents getting the virus, and they’re trying to explain away “the inverse relationship”.
Hey, the data doesn’t lie! Look at the entire article for charts and such.
Well perhaps we will start to be urged to smoke by the government now.
60 yrs of Camel non-filters should make me immune. :)
Freudian slip?
Fools.
So can the kids go back to school if they promise to chain-smoke in class?
It’s hard to believe that nicotine doesn’t also have some positive attributes. But they will never admit it.
Anyone remember stepping in the teachers’ lounge and seeing the haze?
Camel Shorts are
The Tastiest Smoke!
I save a pack for Special
Occasions, Marlboro box
are my daily sin.
I am not a doctor. However, IMO, nicotine also prevents some dementias and IBD. Search “dementia and nicotine” or “IBD and nicotine”
OMG! Facecrap fact checkers would go crazy over this ‘misleading information’ as they would call it.
They do not want to disenfranchise their buddies, Bill Gates and Fauci.
Something to do with the ACE2 receptor cells, and how smoking blocks the virus from attaching.
What about VAPING deaths put in the CoVid-19 column? Same characteristics. NEVER MENTIONED. Yep, a lot of those VAPE chemicals come from CHYna.
See clearly. The SUPEREVIL are SUPERSMART, as are their allies.
https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23838
2020
Smoke causes social distancing?
Well it didn’t stop me from getting it.
Nicotine is an alkaline pesticide. Kills bugs on some plants, except for plants with a highly acidic pH where it is not recommended.
I never smoke when I’m out. I only smoke at home on my deck.
This fascinates me. A few months ago when the virus was hot in Europe I read an article discussing the correlation between smokers with lower incidence and fewer deaths. In France they’d started giving nicorette to nurses treating covid patients. Who knows?
I’ve used nicorette lozenges for a couple of years- about 5 a day. Part of my Stay Sane regimen!
What happened with you? How much did you smoke? Cigarettes?
How bad were your symptoms?
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