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Anonymous ID: 832506 March 9, 2020, 5:55 p.m. No.8363052   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3080 >>3092 >>3121 >>3241 >>3305 >>3306 >>3329

Every time i turn on Fox, i hear someone saying the dangers of covid-19 are greater in the elderly. But people die from respiratory failure. So what about the effects of this virus on smokers, ex-smokers and vapers?

I started with this article - not in qresear.ch yet.

 

Reduce your risk of serious lung disease caused by corona virus by quitting smoking and vaping

When someone’s lungs are exposed to flu or other infections the adverse effects of smoking or vaping are much more serious than among people who do not smoke or vape.

 

Smoking is associated with increased development of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in people with a risk factor like severe infection, non-pulmonary sepsis (blood infection), or blunt trauma. People who have any cotinine (a metabolite of nicotine) in their bodies – even at the low levels associated with secondhand smoke – have substantially increased risk of acute respiratory failure from ARDS (paper 1, paper 2, paper 3)…..

 

Consistent with this science, analysis of deaths from corona virus in China shows that men are more likely to die than women, something that may be related to the fact that many more Chinese men smoke than women.

 

Among Chinese patients diagnosed with COVID-19 associated pneumonia, the odds of disease progression (including to death) were

14 times higher among people with a history of smoking compared to those who did not smoke. This was the strongest risk factor among those examined.

 

https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/reduce-your-risk-serious-lung-disease-caused-corona-virus-quitting-smoking-and-vaping

 

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Note: the title of this article may be deceptive.

The study results apply to suggest that quitting smoking today will immediately will reduce your corona risk. But is this true?

As someone with parents who died from smoking-related problems years after they quit smoking, i know firsthand that although quitting probably prolongs life, the effects of a lifetime of smoking don't go away just because you quit. More focus is needed to compare the effects of corona on (a) smokers vs non-smokers in various age cohorts.

DIGG CALL

Anonymous ID: 832506 March 9, 2020, 5:57 p.m. No.8363080   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>8363052

sorry about the red text fail. What was stressed is this:

the odds of [covid-19] disease progression (including to death) were

14 times higher among people with a history of smoking

Anonymous ID: 832506 March 9, 2020, 6:08 p.m. No.8363201   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3263 >>3270 >>3313

>>8363147

>>8363159

This is a DIG CALL. I just now heard Hannity talk AGAIN about the effects of ago on mortality rate–not a word about smoking, even tho the study i posted suggests that "disease progression" is

14x more likely

in those who smoke.

My suggestion?

FIND MORE STUDIES.

That's why there's a dig call - because

something is being ignored that deserves more attention.

Anonymous ID: 832506 March 9, 2020, 6:15 p.m. No.8363270   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3284 >>3287 >>3305 >>3329

>>8363201

>>8363147

>>8363159

Excerpt from another COVID-19 scientific article:

*** Another issue is smoking. It’s not a huge surprise that smoking might be a contributing factor to severity in a respiratory illness. But there’s significant evidence that smoking is significantly associated with COVID-19 progressing toward severe or critical disease. See this study from February 28th. There is also this study from February 26th which focuses on a gene expression found in smokers which is associated with COVID-19 – a “receptor” of virus. These findings may suggest that smokers are also more susceptible to infection.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/new-studies-shed-light-on-impact-and-vulnerability-to-covid-19