Recent findings at the end of April suggested that cigarette smokers are much less likely to be impacted with the Corona than their healthy-lunged counterparts.

Approximately a quarter of the French population smoke. So with all else being equal, it would make sense that approximately 25% of the corona-infected French population would be smokers. That is however not the case. Researchers found that only 5% of the COVID-patients in a Paris hospital were daily smokers. The smokers still get infected for sure, but their symptoms will either be non-existent or completely mild.
Similar stories have been found in other hospitals around the world as well. From Greece, to China, to the USA.

So what is it in cigarettes that push COVID-19 down? We don’t know for sure since this finding is so new, but the leading hypothesis is that it’s the nicotine. Nicotine binds itself to the ACE2 cell-membrane protein when absorbed into the smoker’s body- which happens to be the same protein that COVID-19 binds to.

Nicotine has also been shown to treat inflammation so it’s entirely possible that the nicotine in a corona-infected individual can help with the infection-caused inflammation.

When this news broke out on April 24th, the French government issued a temporary stop on online sales of nicotine and issued restrictions to pharmacies to only allow purchases of up to a month’s worth of nicotine. This restriction is both to prevent the possibility of individuals putting too much nicotine in their bodies and also to prevent a hoarding situation, like what happened with Americans and toilet paper.

French researchers will be running trials on the link between nicotine and covid-19. Ordinary French civilians, Healthcare workers, and those already positively tested with covid-19 will be given nicotine patches so their effects can be compared against that of placebos. With luck, the findings of these trials will help blaze the way towards finding a cure for the virus.

I can't understand how life goes on the way it does. Why does my heart go on beating? Why do these eyes of mine cry? Nobody even reads the description box so I can literally just write whatever I want.

If there’s all this evidence that nicotine helps fight the corona, should we all start smoking cigarettes? I’m not going to tell you how to live your life, but I would say no. Cigarettes (and the nicotine inside them) do far more harm than good. Starting a nicotine habit to avoid the corona would be like chopping off your feet so you won’t ever accidentally step in dog *poop*.

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