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One thing though ... I notice a smoker from a way bigger distance WD>now.

So does COVID-19.

Source: The Telegraph

Smokers 'four times less likely' to contract Covid-19, prompting
nicotine patch trials on patients

Researchers in France will test nicotine patches on health workers and
patients but reiterated smoking could also cause more severe illness

By Henry Samuel 23 April 2020 • 5:04pm

Frontline health workers and patients in France may be given nicotine
patches after studies found that four times fewer smokers contracted
Covid-19 than non-smokers.

It may sound counterintuitive that people who puff on Gauloises are
less likely to catch a virus that can cause deadly attacks on the
lungs. However, that was the statistical outcome of an in-depth study
conducted by the Pasteur Institute, a leading French research centre
into the disease.

The institute tested almost 700 teachers and pupils of a school in Crépy-en-Valois in one of the hardest-hit areas in France, as well as
their families. The “highly accurate” tests found that only 7.2 per
cent of smokers from among the adults tested were infected while four
times as many non-smokers, some 28 per cent, were infected.

Arnaud Fontanet, an epidemiologist at the institute, warned that they
were not encouraging people to take up smoking, remarking that those
smokers who do catch the virus “risk suffering more complications” than others. Scientists suggested it could be the nicotine in cigarettes
that was behind the surprising results regarding infection, although
more research is needed.

more at link

Read more:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/23/smokers-four-times-less -likely-contract-covid-19-prompting-nicotine/

Stay safe y'all.

Yeah. Smokers are gonna have to give up nicotine. Not gonna happen.
Wearing a patch just isn't in the cards for some folks ...

--Lee

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Often Licked, Never Beaten

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