Calling the ANTI SMOKING BRIGADE you better Light up

French researchers are planning to test nicotine patches on coronavirus patients and frontline health workers after a study suggested smokers may be much less at risk of contracting the virus.

WTF

“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. 

Pubs to re open  Smoking ban to be Lifted ,The Gastro one Glass wine mob to be foooked off out of it

smokers possibly at lower risk of catching the virus but if they do get it far more likely to get severe symptoms ... catch 22

less likely to get it cos they are stood outside away from folk, whilst they smoke?

Says far less likely to Suffer Severe Symptoms Geordie , that is the Basis of the report 

“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.

There is that Much shyte in them perhaps one of the Chemicals Might be killing off the Virus

They will start with nicotine Patches , it might be Just filling your Lungs with Shyte that is

Doing the Job , I shall carry on

the sage,guru,he who must be obeyed,listened to ,dr Hillary mocked david hockney for suggesting,debating this last week,maybe he,d liked to apologise or at least admit iots a debate worth having,dr Hillary didn't just mock it almost said your better taking your chances with covid than smoking

It found that of those admitted to hospital, whose median age was 65, only 4.4% were regular smokers. Among those released home, with a median age of 44, 5.3% smoked.



i wonder if he has considered age being a factor rather than smoking ?

Well lets hope there is some truth in it , but the Problem is Nicotine addiction , would be far better off if was another substance that is in them ..

May also be that peoples lungs are so Fooked the Virus fooks off out of it looking for greener

pastures ...

maybe coughing all the time clears the virus into non smokers airwaves

I said to the Mrs the other week I doubt fook all could survive in My lungs

The problem with the Virus , is not the Virus itself , its individuals and the Bodies reaction

or Over re action to it that causes the Problems ..

I wonder if they have tried Anti Histamines on Patients ?

I was quite unwell 3/4 weeks back, Chest headache etc ,really struggling to Sleep I took some
Phenergan  to knock me out ,in the Morning I felt ok but gradually during the day Symptoms would
return lasted about 5-7 days ..

plenty folk on anti histimines at the moment for tree pollen

maybe that will be another cause for study.

Hope this is correct, i ignored all the you should give up the ****.

I think you are right though Geordie,the ventilator won't be much help to you if you caught it.

no surprise to me ,heard weeks ago that non smokers affected far more ,smoking gets the blame ,unfairly ,for just about everything.

When I smoked I averaged a cold every 2-3 years.  I stopped smoking 2 years ago and have had 5 colds in that time.  Not that am I advocating smoking as a preventative measure against colds; it does have some other side-effects after all.

Apr 23, 2020 -- 1:48PM, ----you-have-to-laugh--- wrote:

It found that of those admitted to hospital, whose median age was 65, only 4.4% were regular smokers. Among those released home, with a median age of 44, 5.3% smoked.i wonder if he has considered age being a factor rather than smoking ?

Both those figures indicate the % of smokers going to hospital in the first place for this is disproportionately very low

There was a study of the first wave in Wuhan which I think found that only 5% of patients were smokers. There are pros and cons to everything you do I guess.

Buy cigaratte shares
Got to be a one way bet for the next year at LEAST

The Headless chicken Mob will be out buying Nicotine patches ,we will end up with thousands more nicotine addicts ...........

Smoking is loaded with carbon dioxide ,and corona virus stops carbon dioxide leaving the body,but the carbon dioxide that is in your body can't escape because of the corona,and it kills you.But when you smoke the carbon dioxide in the body mixes with the smoking carbon dioxide and then the smoke blown out removes both groups of carbon dioxide.more tests are needed.

smoking reduces oxygen in your blood and your body can be tricked into producing more red blood cells to compensate. Red blood cells carry oxygen to your organs. Cigarette smoke is full of carbon monoxide. There is a form of doping called carbon monoxide doping where the athlete inhales carbon monoxide and the body produces more red blood cells to compensate, which helps in endurance sports.

They could actually try treating patients with epo, which also increases production of red blood cells, if there's anything to this study.

In the studies I read on this a week or two ago, former smokers were almost as well protected as current smokers.

I think I might have hit the sweet spot by smoking 20-a-day from age 18 to 26, then giving up after one disastrous afternoon at Devon & Exeter. When I got back to St David's station, I found I couldn't even afford a box of matches, never mind 10 Rothmans. Things were so bad, I had to look for a job again, and by the time one turned up, I found I'd given up by default.

But I may reap the benefits of those early years in the weeks to come.

smoking reduces oxygen in your blood and your body can be tricked into producing more red blood cells to compensate.

Carbon monoxide molecules from the smoke attaches to the red blood cells.  Those carrying a CO can't then pick up an oxygen molecule.  To compensate for this a smoker's body produces more red blood cells.  When someone suddenly stops smoking, all of their red blood cells can now pick up oxygen.  This is why people feel very light-headed when they stop smoking, because the brain is suddenly getting more oxygen than it needs.  It takes a few days for the body to realise it no longer needs the increased red blood cell production.  The light-headedness was the hardest thing for me to overcome.

Yes, and they'd effectively be stopping once admitted to hospital

Carbon monoxide levels can drop back to a normal level after about 12 hours without a cigarette, which means that first thing every morning a smoker could have a similar or even higher oxygen carrying capacity than a non-smoker, even if he lights up in the morning and doesn't quit at all.

Of course the % of people who smoked, would have to be less than the % who smoke in our society.

To be meaningful

I think?

White blood cells are the cells of the immune system which protect the body against infectious diseases. Smoking also causes an elevated level of white blood cells as your body is constantly fighting the effects of smoking. It is generally thought to have a negative effect on the immune system and to make the smoker more susceptible to diseases like flu and pneumonia though. But it also thought to increase the body's ability to fight certain inflammatory diseases and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimers.