[DallasBiff]

This is an over year old article, but I haven't seen tobacco villafied as much.

Any follow up studies?

[butlerweave]

What chemical in the cigarette is doing it ?

[mass55th]

All my immediate family members smoked. Three of the six died of lung cancer. Two at 69...one at 73. My only brother died of a heart attack at 51. The other sister died at 74 of a stroke. I've never smoked, and I'm the only one left...age 74, but I have my own health issues despite never having smoked.

My youngest son has been smoking since he was a teen. He's 50 now. Back in 2019 he went through surgery for cancerous polyps, and six months of chemo. He's cut down on his smoking, but he hasn't quit. I might also add that during the surgery, they took out at least 70 lymph nodes, which has compromised his immune system. When they did his initial scan in 2019, to check on whether the cancer had spread anywhere else, they found a small polyp or cyst-like tissue in his lung. They did a biopsy, but found no cancer, and will continue to monitor it. During his chemo, he ended up with a blood clot in his lung...a side effect of the chemo. He had to inject himself with Heparin for the remainder of his treatments. Earlier this year, he and his wife got the shots, so of course with all the fears of blood clots from the vaccines, and his history of getting a blood clot in his lung during chemo, I worry even more about him now. My oldest son got the shots over the summer. He'll be 55 next month. My one goal in life is not to outlive my kids, and I pray every night that neither of them will fall for the bull$hit, and get any booster shots.

[Irish Eyes]

Interesting article , maybe it is because there are not many people that still smoke.

I am a smoker so interested in this study.

[LeoTDB69]

Smokers should get tax breaks if their smoking lowers covid risks. right?

[Nifster]

Interesting nonetheless

[Freedom4US]

I watched this thing from afar - when US authorities were publicly “Nothing to worry about here, go to parades, hug a chinaman” as it was hitting China hard. I knew it was going to he a complete debacle once it did get here.

Anyway one of the curious things being reported at that time out of China was that ex-smokers in particular (as opposed to smokers or, people who had never smoked) were having really bad outcomes if they did become infected. Pretty wacky, but that’s what they were reporting.

[Walmartian]

LSMFT

[CapnJack]

Your prescription ...

[Paal Gulli]

That’s because smokers stink. Nobody except other smokers want to get close to them.

[MHT]

Early on, this was recognized as a respiratory disease but never did smokers appear as one of the higher at-risk groups. How does that make sense? Glad there is now more sunshine on this discrepancy.