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French study says nicotine patches could help prevent coronavirus infection
WFLA ^ | 5/2/20

Posted on 05/04/2020 3:06:59 PM PDT by DallasBiff

French researches say they found lower infection rate for smokers among COVID-19 patients than non-smokers. Only five percent of the patients smoke. Now compare that with 25 percent of the general population that smoke regularly.

So why is that?

Well, one explanation they say is that nicotine and the COVID-19 virus bind to the same cell receptors and that nicotine is able to block the virus from attaching itself

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chinavirus; coronavirus; nicotine; nicotinepatches; pelosi; tobacco
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This is hilarious, I can see Nancy Pelosi buying up all the cartons of Virginia Slims.
1 posted on 05/04/2020 3:06:59 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

How about pipe tobacco? I’m puffing away on a bowl of good ol’ Carter Hall as I type these words. I don’t believe any virus will be able to find me through the smoke.


2 posted on 05/04/2020 3:09:19 PM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: DallasBiff

don’t need nicotine

sweet wormwood/artemesia works like hcq and you can buy it in the grocery store or local health store


3 posted on 05/04/2020 3:10:21 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: DallasBiff

BHT dissolves lipid envelopes of viruses. It’s in lychee fruit, or in capsules.

Just sayin...


4 posted on 05/04/2020 3:10:28 PM PDT by datura
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To: Nothingburger

You don’t need to inhale to get a dose of nicotine. Cigars and pipes would be good.


5 posted on 05/04/2020 3:11:11 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: Nothingburger

World’s Oldest Smoking Joke:

Q. “Have you got Prince Albert in a can?”
A. Why, yes we do.

Q. “Better let him out!!”


6 posted on 05/04/2020 3:14:10 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Nothingburger
I burnt a 5 Vegas last night....and two beers.

I guess...i;m doomed.

7 posted on 05/04/2020 3:14:44 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Mar's isn't a place to raise your kid...)
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To: DallasBiff

Don’t forget oral tobacco products.

That’s ‘snuff said...


8 posted on 05/04/2020 3:16:09 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: DallasBiff

Here. You smoke this, and be sure you get the smoke deep down into your lungs.

I don’t smoke. It’s tobacco.

It’s one of the healthiest things for your body. Now go ahead.

(”Sleeper” - 1973)


9 posted on 05/04/2020 3:16:24 PM PDT by Flick Lives (The real virus is the MSM)
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To: DoughtyOne

Wait, snuff isn’t oral...

Couldn’t pass it up...


10 posted on 05/04/2020 3:16:51 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: lee martell

Considering what “Prince Albert” has come to mean in body-piercing circles, it would take on a whole new meaning today.


11 posted on 05/04/2020 3:16:57 PM PDT by coydog (Time to feed the pigs!)
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To: coydog

Now I’m curious. What DOES “Price Albert” mean with the Cool Kids today?


12 posted on 05/04/2020 3:18:57 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: DallasBiff

Or the smoke drive people away.

Did you know, until about 100 years ago, smokers lived longer than other people? What happened? Air conditioners and affordable wire screens — that kept out bugs.

Smoking drove pests like mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas away -— all major vectors of disease.


13 posted on 05/04/2020 3:20:53 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: DallasBiff

Warning: the Surgeon General has determined that nicotine may prevent Coronavirus....

Oh, the irony


14 posted on 05/04/2020 3:21:34 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON. I)
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To: lee martell

I had to look it up now that you asked...

It’s a pierced penis.

I guess I’m just too old, I just don’t get why anyone would do that.


15 posted on 05/04/2020 3:22:00 PM PDT by datura
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To: datura

Ugg. I guess it takes all kinds to spin a world.
I thought it would be something more wholesome, you know, like a Tramp Stamp.


16 posted on 05/04/2020 3:23:48 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: DallasBiff

I keep hearing that D-I-N-O-V-I-T-E .com commercial. If it can do half as much good as the radio commercial says, maybe it could cure the covid.


17 posted on 05/04/2020 3:24:38 PM PDT by Migraine
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To: DallasBiff

In the beginning on covid, they claimed smokers were hit hardest. Vivid is like global warming. It’s a moving target.


18 posted on 05/04/2020 3:24:49 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: datura

You’re like Christopher Guest’s character in “Breaking Bad”. He had the same question. He had such a drole role.


19 posted on 05/04/2020 3:26:29 PM PDT by Migraine
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To: Migraine

Sorry, not Christopher Guest, Larry Hankin.


20 posted on 05/04/2020 3:29:58 PM PDT by Migraine
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