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| Smoke fags, save lives |
| 2020-04-26 |
| h/t Instapundit [Spiked] - There’s 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. Review of Evidence ...This week, a group of French academics published their study of 343 Covid patients, of whom only 4.4 per cent were daily smokers. According to the authors, the study ’strongly suggests that daily smokers have a very much lower probability of developing symptomatic or severe SARS-CoV-2 infection as compared to the general population’. This seems to have been the study that prompted Professor Changeux to go public with his research project. People scoffed when Emmanuel Macron exempted tobacco kiosks from France’s lockdown on the basis that they provide an essential service. Who’s coughing now? Far be it from me to preempt the conclusions of the professor’s research, but let us consider for a moment the policy implications of nicotine being the only tried and tested prophylactic for Covid-19. We could issue Lucky Strikes on prescription. We could #ClapForOurCigarettes every Thursday evening. The case for closing down Public Health England would be stronger than ever. We could open the pubs, but only to smokers and vapers. We might allow a few non-smokers in to enjoy the possible benefits of passive exposure, but only if they stand two metres apart. There is everything to play for. I'd really like to tell somebody "Can you please stop not smoking - it really bothers me!" |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 "Fancy a fag?" |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2020-04-26 17:47 |
| #2 Not for Cigs |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-04-26 17:43 |
| #1 Thought Fags was a N-word. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-04-26 16:56 |