Really??! That’s going to be awkward to include in the daily press briefing “Light up grandpa”.
Well, I’ll be! And everyone said cigarettes are bad for you...
I’m gonna fire up a Marlboro and help fight off the virus. ;)
I so want this to work because back in Feb I joked that they’ll probably find out nicotine cures coronavirus and the left will lose their minds. Nate Silver proved that one right prediction can be turned into a lucrative career of making bad predictions and I want that.
Perhaps it is simply that smokers are less likely to be overweight?
Bkmrk
Watch a cigar and tumbler of whisky is all it takes to avoid the virus.
All things are observed through a prism. The medical community looks to tobacco and therefore nicotine as evil with zero benefit. It takes guts to peak around your prism.
>> The study at a major Paris hospital suggests a substance in tobacco – possibly nicotine – may be stopping patients who smoke from catching Covid-19. <<
Wait... we were told from the Asian results that the reason the victims were heavily disproportionately male was that they smoked!
So far I’ve heard that basically everything stops the Coronavirus. Sex stops Coronavirus, Smoking stops Coronavirus, dog heartworm treatment stops coronavirus.
I’m going to have an extra smoke break after reading this.
Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em!
...and I thought that nearly all Italians smoked cigarettes.
During the Spanish flu of 1918-19 smoking was promoted as a way to stave off the flu.
British American Tobacco, the maker of brands including Lucky Strike, Dunhill, Rothmans and Benson & Hedges, has said it has a potential coronavirus vaccine in development using tobacco plants.
BAT has turned the vast resources usually focused on creating products that pose health risks to millions of smokers worldwide to battling the global pandemic.
“If testing goes well, BAT is hopeful that, with the right partners and support from government agencies, between 1m and 3m doses of the vaccine could be manufactured per week, beginning in June,” the company said.
The London-listed company used the announcement to trumpet the positive aspects of its tobacco empire, saying that “new, fast-growing tobacco plant technology” put it ahead of others trying to develop a vaccine.
“Tobacco plants offer the potential for faster and safer vaccine development compared with conventional methods,” the company said.
BAT said its US biotech subsidiary, Kentucky BioProcessing (KBP), has moved to pre-clinical testing and that it will work on the vaccine on a not-for-profit basis.
In 2014, the tobacco firm bought KBP, which has previously worked on a treatment for Ebola. BAT said its work was “potentially safer [than conventional vaccine technology], given that tobacco plants cannot host pathogens which cause human disease”.
Smokers or vapers?
Vaper’s are inhaling Propylene Glycol which is used to inactivate the flu virus for vaccines. There was also a 1942 study on mice that showed inhaling Propylene Glycol was protective against flu.
Prior to COVID there was studies that indicated that long term Smoking and Vaping made changes in the lungs that prediposed them to lung infections. Vaping has other chemicals than just PG.
Hubby and I are heavy smokers. Rarely get sick..BUT something went through his work place and their families. We both got it. Docs tested a couple and said it wasn’t the flu. At that time there were no corona tests near by. If you are a smoker..you cough. I knew it would hit our lungs and we decided to cough until there was nothing left to cough. If we took a deep breath.. and there was a rattle..we coughed until there wasn’t. It took me 30+ days. In our experience as smokers..we do not go to doctors. If you’re a smoker..you probably know why.
““Our cross-sectional study strongly suggests that those who smoke every day are much less likely to develop a symptomatic or severe infection with Sars-CoV-2 compared with the general population,” the Pitié-Salpêtrière report authors wrote.
“The effect is significant. It divides the risk by five for ambulatory patients and by four for those admitted to hospital. We rarely see this in medicine,” it added.”
Holy cow! This is huge! And boy, are lib heads gonna splode.