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French study says nicotine patches could help prevent coronavirus infection
WFLA ^ | 5/2/20

Posted on 05/04/2020 3:06:59 PM PDT by DallasBiff

French researches say they found lower infection rate for smokers among COVID-19 patients than non-smokers. Only five percent of the patients smoke. Now compare that with 25 percent of the general population that smoke regularly.

So why is that?

Well, one explanation they say is that nicotine and the COVID-19 virus bind to the same cell receptors and that nicotine is able to block the virus from attaching itself

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chinavirus; coronavirus; nicotine; nicotinepatches; pelosi; tobacco
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To: DallasBiff
I've been smoking Marlboros for 55yrs, and use a Nico-Derm Patch, everyday. Down to a ½ pack a day from 3. Lungs are clear, amazingly.
21 posted on 05/04/2020 3:36:48 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Osage Orange

5 Vegas is a fine cigar. Don’t have any in my humidor just now, but I would definitely like to try them again.

For health reasons, I’ve had to switch from beer to dry red wine. Not exactly a hardship, when you think about it.


22 posted on 05/04/2020 3:38:12 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: DallasBiff; All

Supports this earlier posting
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3839133/posts


23 posted on 05/04/2020 3:39:25 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Have you purchased this? I see that a company called Artemilife has created a tea out of sweet wormwood.


24 posted on 05/04/2020 3:45:29 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: Nothingburger
Gonna burn a La Perla Habana tonite...

Pretty good gar....

I need to order some more....

25 posted on 05/04/2020 3:47:00 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Mar's isn't a place to raise your kid...)
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To: mosesdapoet
LOL! My mother who died in 2004, back in the 80's asked my aunt for a "fag" at a restaurant, and I was eye opened surprised.

That's when I found out "fag" meant cigarette to the World War II generation.

26 posted on 05/04/2020 3:49:34 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!")
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To: P-Marlowe

and Copenhagen!


27 posted on 05/04/2020 3:51:20 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: DallasBiff

Lighting a Arturo Fuente as I type this.


28 posted on 05/04/2020 3:55:36 PM PDT by Cold War Veteran - Submarines
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To: DallasBiff

World War I song Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag ——(1915)
Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag
And smile, smile, smile,
While you’ve a lucifer to light your fag,
Smile, boys, that’s the style.


29 posted on 05/04/2020 4:09:06 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: DallasBiff
This is hilarious, I can see Nancy Pelosi buying up all the cartons of Virginia Slims.

Weeks before the Virus crisis hit, Pelosi and Schumer were in on closed door high security meeting and found that very soon Amazon type deliveries would go to millions of homebound shelter-in-place Americans. So they bought millions more dollars of stock and became even more fabulously wealthy. Gotta love hypocritical insider trading corrupt elite Dems. I guess.

30 posted on 05/04/2020 4:12:26 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: DallasBiff

Can we vape now?


31 posted on 05/04/2020 4:14:07 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: DallasBiff

Maybe the French are onto something here.

While I have been sending my communiques from World Supreme Headquarters for the past two months, I have also been enjoying a cigar.


32 posted on 05/04/2020 4:19:07 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: datura

In addition to all the good food, vitamins, exercise and sunshine one can get, a little of the old Kodiak chewin’ tobacky, BHT and Artemesia never has been known to hurt a lad in a dystopian apocalyptic flu pandemic era such as our own.


33 posted on 05/04/2020 4:28:35 PM PDT by tinyowl
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Can we vape now?

If the vape has nicotine and not THC, I surmise.

Remember, that vaping, was marketed as non-nicotine, and then the pot heads put marijuana THC into the vaping devices, and people started dropping like flies.

34 posted on 05/04/2020 4:43:44 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!")
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To: DallasBiff

Caution: cigarettes contain nicotine ... ok, but what about the smoke? Doe’s that contain any?

Remember back about 15 years ago, the adds on TV calling cigarettes Nicotine Delivery Devices?

Some lawyers got rich. Don’t see that phrase anymore.

So ok, it’s tar, lots of tar. BTW, what’s the primary ingredient in 90+% of the meds in the pharmacy... (that dirty little 3 letter word)


35 posted on 05/04/2020 5:06:45 PM PDT by Joined2Justify (We've been lied to (a lot))
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To: DallasBiff

They thought it was THC, and maybe it was, but the killer appears to have been an oily additive, namely Vitamin E, which is fine for oral ingestion, but not for inhalation.

But, that’s just a detail. What would be important would be if nicotine was actually protective against COVID. Wouldnt that get the medical establishment’s knickers in a twist!


36 posted on 05/04/2020 5:34:25 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: datura

What’s the dosage?


37 posted on 05/04/2020 6:46:39 PM PDT by FreedomNotSafety
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To: lee martell

Just gave me a flashback to being 9 years at my friend’s house with the telephone book when his mom had gone out for an hour.


38 posted on 05/04/2020 6:53:38 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: DallasBiff

The stuff that was killing people was synthetic THC made in China that was marketed in the same wrapper as the stuff they sell in the pot stores.


39 posted on 05/04/2020 6:55:38 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

Phone games were fun back then. Untraceable too, unless you still used a Party Line.


40 posted on 05/04/2020 7:01:09 PM PDT by lee martell
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