Posted on 05/21/2020 1:35:10 PM PDT by knighthawk
Smoking does increase the risk of getting coronavirus, according to a major British study that disputes growing evidence that the habit is protective.
A team at Imperial College London looked at 2.4million Britons, of which 11 per cent reported smoking.
All participants were users of the COVID Symptom Study app, which asks people to regularly report their health and if they have symptoms of the coronavirus, helping to build a clearer picture of the UK's outbreak.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
BS!
At least it aids in social distancing from the stench.
It’s easy to how smoking,as well as other lung issues,would make one a candidate for trouble here.
Did the study have a centerfold or an NC-17 rating?
not rocket science
Well they do smoke Fags, across the pond.
Smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em.
Wow. You know, the way they talk about this thing, the more it sounds like a flu! /s
I read about a study done in China in early March: This virus attacks the lungs vigorously - as far as China is concerned, 51% or 52% of the males smoke cigarettes and only 3% of females in China smoke cigarettes. That was a study done there as to why so many more males than females died.
But not if the smoker wears a mask when he smokes.
Yep, it keeps the nanny state busy bodies who have their own bad habits that I never object to away from me.........
(Unless you poke a little hole in the mask)
There is a little bit of evidence that nicotine may help prevent COVID, not smoking but nicotine as in a patch or gum. Probably less chance than Ivomectin (de-wormer)working but it’s there.
“At least it aids in social distancing from the stench.
Yep, it keeps the nanny state busy bodies who have their own bad habits that I never object to away from me.........”
Kudos to you. Little totalitarians exist everywhere, even on FR. When I smoked, I was in an elevator and a man said “you smoke, I can smell the stink!” I replied yes, and you had a bowel movement this morning. He shut up.
Life style of smokers may be a factor as well. It ain’t all just the smoking. It is an excuse for the virtue signaling do-gooding busy bodies to say “see?”
Then all adult Chinese should be dead
But experts have already stated that nicotine prevents infection/kills the covid-19 virus.
Must be a case of Thursday’s experts out expert other day’s experts.
+1
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