Hell yeah!
Sigh... I'm about one month into quitting again.
Posted on 12/06/2022 3:31:19 PM PST by Rummyfan
Study after study shows that smokers are less likely to get Covid. But this inconvenient truth has been buried.
I achieved a personal milestone in April 2020 when, for the first time, one of my articles was flagged up as fake news on Facebook. spiked rather invited trouble by giving it the headline ‘Smoke fags, save lives’, but even with a subtler title it would have been enough to alarm Zuckerberg’s minions, since it discussed the growing evidence that smokers were heavily under-represented in Covid-19 wards.
Since back then Big Tech’s fact-checkers were still describing claims about SARS-CoV-2 being airborne and face masks preventing infection as ‘misleading’, a fake-news flag was something of a badge of honour. And, as with those claims, the ‘disputed’ information in my article has been borne out by the evidence.
After a brief burst of incredulous coverage in the spring of 2020, the media soon lost interest in the hypothesis that smokers are less likely to get Covid-19, but dozens of studies have been quietly published in the past two-and-a-half years which confirm it. I have been listing them on my blog and last week added the hundredth study. It seems a good time to stop. By any reasonable standard, the jury is in.
Of the 100 studies from around the world, 87 of them show a statistically significant reduction in SARS-CoV-2 infection risk among current smokers as compared to non-smokers. Seven of them found no statistically significant association either way. Two of them found mixed results. Four of them found a positive association between smoking and infection, although three of these looked at people with a genetic propensity to smoke rather than at smokers themselves.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiked-online.com ...
Oh,, THAT F*g!
lol.
Wait, what? Some people have a genetic propensity to smoke?!?!?
Genetic propensity to smoke?
I read a similar study recently. Nicotine saves lives. Tell that to the anti smoking nazi’s
i picked the wrong time to quit
“Light up a fag and take a drag”
~ Randy Stonehill
British article?
Bttt
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Hell yeah!
Sigh... I'm about one month into quitting again.
It may not be the nicotine. The corona virus, like the rhinoviruses require healthy cells to reproduce. Smoking may damage enough cells to make them poor hosts. .
“The findings are remarkably consistent, with smokers typically being 50 per cent less likely to catch the virus.”
Might explain why I, despite being classed an “essential worker” and having to work throughout the pandemic, riding on public transportation, never using hand sanitizer and not paying much attention to social distancing, never got the bug.
Probably more like a genetic disposition to become addicted to nicotine if they use it, just like some have a genetic disposition to become addicted to alcohol.
“Smoking may damage enough cells to make them poor hosts.”
Haha. All these people with healthy pink lungs are creating an “attractive nuisance”, eh?
“ Sigh... I’m about one month into quitting again. ”
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Stick with it. You CAN do it. Wish you good luck in your efforts. 👏👏
I quit in 2015 after smoking for 30 years. This was the year that more Americans quit smoking than any other year.
I started up again in 2021. The Covid lockdowns led to the first increase in smoking in over forty years.
I'm just sayin......
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