Posted on 04/26/2020 12:31:32 PM PDT by Bruiser 10
Theres not much to laugh about these days, but the news that smokers might be protected from Covid-19 is certainly one of them. With study after study showing that smokers are under-represented in coronavirus wards, the renowned French neuroscientist, Jean-Pierre Changeux, is working on a randomised control trial to test the effect of nicotine patches on Covid-19 patients.
This is far from being a crackpot theory. Changeux has explained his hypothesis at length here. In simple terms, he says that nicotinic acetylcholine receptors play a key role in the development of the disease and that nicotine can put a brake on it. If he is right and the banter heuristic says he is it would not only save thousands of lives but would also be one in the eye for the public health groups who have been claiming that smoking and vaping are risk factors for Covid-19.
These groups are so used to lying with impunity that they wasted no time in asserting that smoking caused coronavirus complications when the pandemic began. In the US, newspapers have been filled with reports that smokers and vapers may be at greater risk from Covid-19, a weasel word that requires no evidence. A group of doctors in New York urged governor Andrew Cuomo to ban the sale of all tobacco and e-cigarette products on the false premise that mounting evidence demonstrates the link between tobacco use and increased risk for progressive Covid-19. Meanwhile, the World Health Organisation has been taking occasional breaks from flattering the Chinese Communist Party to make evidence-free assertions about smokers being likely to suffer more from the coronavirus.
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fags is an old irish term for cigarettes
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AND old American term for same.
>fags is an old irish term for cigarettes<
Yeah, we’re just having a little,irreverent, fun with words,
“Yes, smokers do worse”, because you said so...
Vapers get the additional benefit of vaporized propylene glycol which is virucidal.
It was a nationwide campaign exercised to perfection.............
1. Pick a target: Tobacco
2. Freeze it
3. Personalize it - nobody likes tobacco smoke
4. Polarize it - smokers are repulsive
5. Demonize it - ban smoking from all airplanes....etc, etc...etc. then bars and restaurants
Now that you have the entire non smoking population on your side, suing the hell out of the tobacco companies was a piece of cake...........
In 2019, Michigan received $1.2 billion (estimated) in revenue from tobacco settlement payments and taxes in fiscal year 2019. Of this, the state allocated $1.6 million in state funds to tobacco prevention in fiscal year 2019...........LOL!
Funny how that works out isn't it?
Oh, I was thinking flamethrowers and....
Never mind.
Reminds me I have not seen a cigarette vending machine in decades. Perhaps those machines are illegal nowadays.
“1. Pick a target: Tobacco”
ROTFLMAO!
“because you said so...”
No, because it’s true.
Well, I’ve already stocked up on Ivermectin. Now I guess I got to get me a bunch of cans of Skoal.
Tobacco and waterpipe use increases the risk of suffering from COVID-19
http://www.emro.who.int/tfi/know-the-truth/tobacco-and-waterpipe-users-are-at-increased-risk-of-covid-19-infection.html
Studies: Smoking, age, other factors raise risk of COVID-19 death
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/studies-smoking-age-other-factors-raise-risk-covid-19-death
Why COVID-19 hits smokers harder
https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-covid-19-risk-and-smoking.html
Vaping, smoking increases risk of infections from COVID-19
https://www.wwlp.com/news/health/coronavirus/vaping-smoking-increases-risk-of-infections-from-covid-19/
Smokers Face Greater Risk From COVID-19
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85862
“fags is an old irish term for cigarettes”
Still used today in Ireland and the UK. If in reference to a gay the normal term is poofter or a poof if being derogatory. If not being derogatory they just say gay.
A fag is a cigarette on the other side of the pond.
I Forgot to add this about the origin of the word.
“The term faggot or fagot, meaning bundle of sticks, shows up around 1300 in English. It almost certainly came from Old French, possibly going back to Greek phakelos. Since those bundles of sticks were mainly used for fires, its not surprising that the term came to mean burning sticks.”
Thus the term faggot is easily understood in relationship to cigarettes. I have no idea how it became applied to homosexuals.
I’m going back to cigars tomorrow
In my scientific analysis, it is not nicotine that keeps smokers from getting Covid-19, but that no one wants to get near those stinky, hacking smokers anyway, so ‘Social Distancing’ is automatic and extended.
Funny that your first two links don’t even say that. COPD is not vaping, not proven to be vaping-related.
I didn’t even bother with looking at the other two.
It’s also common sense smoking will only make your chances with covid-19 worse. Italy proved that.
China claims to prove otherwise.
Because China says so... LOL!
Smoking doesn’t make anyone’s lungs healthier, that’s why it’s common sense covid will be worse with compromised lungs. It certainly won’t be better.
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