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can I suggest changing or adding the title of #8916817 to include the smoking aspect? I believe that the smoke and the heat of smoking acts as a disinfectant for the lungs. Fire up dem weeds.
Damn straight.
Check the article in the original notable. The author says that the smokers have a lower infection rate.
Yep but what if it’s simpler than that? Dang Occam dude.
French researchers are planning to trial whether nicotine patches will help prevent - or lessen the effects of - the deadly coronavirus.
Evidence is beginning to show the proportion of smokers infected with coronavirus is much lower than the rates in the general population.
Scientists are now questioning whether nicotine could stop the virus from infecting cells, or if it may prevent the immune system overreacting to the infection.
Doctors at a major hospital in Paris - who also found low rates of smoking among the infected - are now planning to give nicotine patches to COVID-19 patients.
They will also give them to frontline workers to see if the stimulant has any effect on preventing the spread of the virus, according to reports.
It comes after world-famous artist David Hockney last week said he believes smoking could protect people against the deadly coronavirus.
MailOnline looked at the science and found he may have been onto something, with one researcher saying there was 'bizarrely strong' evidence it could be true.
One study in China, where the pandemic began, showed only 6.5 per cent of COVID-19 patients were smokers, compared to 26.6 per cent of the population.
Another study, by the Centers for Disease Control in the US, found just 1.3 per cent of hospitalised patients were smokers - compared to 14 per cent of America.
And research by hospitals in Paris found that smokers were under-represented in both inpatients and outpatients, suggesting that any protective effect could affect anyone, not just those hospitalised by their illness.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8246939/French-researchers-plan-nicotine-patches-coronavirus-patients-frontline-workers.html
French researchers are planning to trial whether nicotine patches will help prevent - or lessen the effects of - the deadly coronavirus.
Evidence is beginning to show the proportion of smokers infected with coronavirus is much lower than the rates in the general population.
Scientists are now questioning whether nicotine could stop the virus from infecting cells, or …
What if it’s not the nicotine but the heat and the smoke particles? Regardless of the weed you are inhaling? Tobacco or cannabis?
You know that for sure?
Not me man, that’s what the scientists in France are doing. I’m just saying maybe it’s more simple than that. The virus can’t do heat. The virus can’t to gas changes past O2 and CO2. I’ll just take another hit and stay healthy. I’m not saying I know what I’m talking about or that you don’t. Sounds like you do know quite a bit more about pulmonary functions than I, but, that Occam dude.
My understanding is that most of the bad shit in cigarettes is the additives not the actual tobacco. Take all the extra crap out and just smoke the plant and I would truly wonder about the cancer side of things…and don’t get me started on how/why cannabis was made illegal and illegitimate…