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Originally Posted by tophcfa
Could it be that the residue in ones lungs from smoking cigarettes is so nasty that even a virus doesn’t want to go near it?
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Something like that.
Renowned French neurobiologist Jean-Pierre Changeux, who reviewed the study, told The Guardian that nicotine may be hindering the virus from entering the body’s cells and preventing its spread.
In France, figures from Paris hospitals showed that of 11,000 patients admitted to the hospital with coronavirus, 8.5 percent were smokers. The total number of smokers in France is estimated to be 25.4 percent.
“Our cross-sectional study strongly suggests that those who smoke every day are much less likely to develop a symptomatic or severe infection with Sars-CoV-2 compared with the general population,” the Pitié-Salpêtrière report authors wrote.
“The effect is significant. It divides the risk by five for ambulatory patients and by four for those admitted to hospital. We rarely see this in medicine,” it added.