They are. This chart is in French, but it's easy enough to flush out the meaning. In a nutshell, smokers are getting and dying from the 'Rona at a far less rate than would be expected in relation to the population of smokers.
Official French data on #tobacco smoking & #covid19 replicate the picture in China, Germany & USA: A remarkable low rate of smokers are hospitalised w/ coronavirus compared to smoking prevalence (France 23%).
Not sure if you can get a PDF translated, but this is the support doc from the French study:
https://fr.calameo.com/read/0062175782dac24c23c92
From the CDC (this time in English):
Preliminary Estimates of the Prevalence of Selected Underlying Health Conditions Among Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019 — United States, February 12–March 28, 2020
The consistent low rate of #tobacco smokers among patients with #coronavirus in China is now duplicated in the U.S. by CDC: Among 7,162 corona patients with medical records 6,901 were never-smokers (96.3%), 165 ex-smokers (2.3%), and only 96 smokers (1.3%)
More on Chinese data here:
Smoking, vaping and hospitalization for COVID-19
Studies show consistently that #tobacco smokers are much less likely to be victims of #COVID19 hospitalization:
9.6% smokers hospitalized vs. 31.2% expected (<0.001), based on Chinese smoking prevalence, suggesting smoking may protect against coronavirus.
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