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Does smoking/nicotine protect against the virus? - TreesAndBirds - 04-23-2020
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8246939/French-researchers-plan-nicotine-patches-coronavirus-patients-frontline-workers.html
RE: Does smoking/nicotine protect against the virus? - Snorlax94 - 04-23-2020
From UCSF:
As of April 16, 2020 there were 12 papers that had data on smoking and COVID disease progression, 10 from China, 1 from Korea, and 1 from the US. Our meta-analysis of these 12 papers found that smoking was associated with more than a doubling of odds of disease progression in people who had already developed COVID.
https://tobacco.ucsf.edu/reduce-your-risk-serious-lung-disease-caused-corona-virus-quitting-smoking-and-vaping
Maybe in Paris smokers practiced better social distancing because no one wants to stand near a smoker. I’m mildly curious to see the results of a patch but I think at this time smoking is a bad idea.