Drugs that mimic effects of cigarette smoke reduce SARS-CoV-2's ability to enter cells

Medical Xpress ^ | SEPTEMBER 10, 2021 | Hiroshima University

[right way right]

I think that’s Prilosec.

[right way right]

I always thought it gave me a nice even heart rate. lol

[kelly4c]

Husband vapes. Bad case of Covid last year. I chew nicotine gum ( quite a bit of it unforch) and I have not caught the Covid yet. Hmm.

[Big Red Badger]

I quit cold Turkey 20 yrs ago but picked it back up.
The last year and a half has seen an uptick
But about 6months ago I tried rolling my Own.
Tobacco shops sell the
Tubes,Pipe Tobacco and
a 12 dollar Machine.
You get perhaps 3 good puffs and it’s done,
at a Nickle a piece!
I am Smoking less and
Will quit soon.
I just retired and scored
A Great place in Arizona!
Good Luck FRiend.

[1_Rain_Drop]

Learn to roll your own. way way way cheaper!
Buy the leaves, shred them, roll them, smoke’m.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

It is Prilosec. No clue about if there is any in Pepcid.

[DallasBiff]

I'm a dipper not a smoker. One can of dip every 4 or 5 days.

Well anyway I was at a blackjack table next to an oriental guy and he was smoking some Chinese cigs.

Most vile cig smoke, I ever smelled. I didn't move since I was winning and didn't want to break my luck.

Maybe the ccp engineered the Wuhan virus so that smokers would be protected.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Are you serious? You smoked longer than 58 years? Holy cow, who are you, Keith Richards? LOL Yeah I tried vaping but it kept giving my colds and a sore throat believe it or not, I don’t know, maybe I’m allergic to it

[devane617]

Cigar smoker here. Germs can’t get past the Cigar funk.

[devane617]

I’ve smoked Cigars for fifty years.

[Allegra]

LOL - I quit smoking a couple of years before this Covid fiasco. Talk about bad timing.

[StAnDeliver]

Landon died of pancreatic cancer (exocrine adenocarcinoma). Diagnosed April 5, 1991 and dead less than 3 months later.

[NoLibZone]

Cigarettes, pork rinds, Gin
A combination of those kills the Covid virus blows the spikes right off

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

I have a modest proposal. Instead of masking pre-schoolers we should hand them a pack of smokes when they walk in the door. At least there is science that there is some benefit to the smoking vs Covid.

What do ya think. LOL

[T.B. Yoits]

Nicotine does thin the blood. It also kills things if concentrated enough. It may kill COVID in cigarette level concentrations.

[Tellurian]

cigarette smoke extract and these two drugs [FICZ and omeprazole] ... reduce the ability of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to enter the cell

Omeprazole, an off-the-shelf acid-reflux medication, will be next to be banished by the FDA, the CDC, and the rest of the axis of evil.