Nicotine may be effective against coronavirus

1. 2020-04-24 at 5:15 AM UTC

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   MexicanMasterRace Black Hole
   https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/23/smokers-four-times-less-likely-contract-covid-19-prompting-nicotine/
   
   

   The researchers said that a “nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR)” plays a key role in infection from the coronavirus and that nicotine may act to protect this receptor from attack. It may also lessen the overreaction of the body’s immune system that has been found in the most severe cases of Covid-19 infection.

   
   Pretty interesting if this turns out to be true.
2. 2020-04-24 at 5:22 AM UTC

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   vindicktive vinny Black Hole
   no, its the tar that reduced the lung surface area for the virus to land and attack.
3. 2020-04-24 at 5:23 AM UTC

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   Technologist victim of incest

   Frontline health workers and patients in France may be given nicotine patches after studies found that four times fewer smokers contracted Covid-19 than non-smokers.
   
   It may sound counterintuitive that people who puff on Gauloises are less likely to catch a virus that can cause deadly attacks on the lungs. However, that was the statistical outcome of an in-depth study conducted by the Pasteur Institute, a leading French research centre into the disease.
   
   The institute tested almost 700 teachers and pupils of a school in Crépy-en-Valois in one of the hardest-hit areas in France, as well as their families. The “highly accurate” tests found that only 7.2 per cent of smokers from among the adults tested were infected while four times as many non-smokers, some 28 per cent, were infected.

   
   Totally surprised. I’ll be curious to find out what happens with the health care workers wearing nicotine patches.
4. 2020-04-24 at 7:03 AM UTC

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   aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
   I was under the impression heavy smokers had higher levels of ACE2, which means higher surface area for corona attack
5. 2020-04-24 at 11:37 AM UTC

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   Cly African Astronaut [foredate your moneyless friar's-cowl]
   No it's just that everyone just naturally socially distances from smokers lol
6. 2020-04-24 at 11:40 AM UTC

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   MexicanMasterRace Black Hole

   Originally posted by aldra I was under the impression heavy smokers had higher levels of ACE2, which means higher surface area for corona attack

   
   Who knows. I dont understand this virus at all. It doesnt spread to dogs or cats BUT SOMETIMES IT DOES. Most people are asymptomatic or minor symptoms and it doesnt effect healthy young people much, BUT SOMETIMES IT DOES.
7. 2020-04-24 at 2:19 PM UTC

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   vindicktive vinny Black Hole

   Originally posted by aldra I was under the impression heavy smokers had higher levels of ACE2, which means higher surface area for corona attack

   
   but the tar had coated most of the lungs leaving less surface area for the virus to come into contact with lung cells.
8. 2020-04-24 at 3:10 PM UTC

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   the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]
   I knew starting smoking was a good idea
9. 2020-04-24 at 3:13 PM UTC

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   tee hee hee Naturally Camouflaged [slangily complete this slumberer]

   Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood I knew starting smoking was a good idea

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   Ive always wanted to be cool/ a smoker maybe i will start too.
10. 2020-04-24 at 3:25 PM UTC

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    the man who put it in my hood Black Hole [miraculously counterclaim my golf]
    It's pretty bad ass
11. 2020-04-24 at 3:38 PM UTC

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    vindicktive vinny Black Hole

    Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood I knew starting smoking was a good idea

    
    its only cool to smoke if you started to smoke before your a teen.