Serious French study showing smokers’ proportion is lower among sick people than it statistically should, and tobacco might keep people from falling sick?
True.
Don’t stop here that’s not the whole story!
1/n
It DOESN’T mean you should start smoking if you’re not.
For the following reason:
2/n
-it’s a study on 350 ppl, no certainty. A biggest study has been launched and shall it show nicotine has positive effects, nicotine patches not lethal cigarettes would be used. Knowing that non-intoxicated non-smokers can’t get that much nicotine -makes them sick.
Also: more serious cases among infected smokers.
2 hypothesis:
1/ harmed lungs resist less well
2/ hospitalised patients stop smoking so nicotine isn’t blocking receptors/virus entry in cells anymore -and smokers have more of them.
Don’t start smoking -even if validated that would translate as (supervised) patch treatment.
If you are smoking &want to stop now (like me) looks like patches are mandatory -or it’s more complicated.
I think I’ll keep not succeeding that well until doctors’ conclusions
If you need a source: Article in French here 👇
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