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Early studies have found that the coronavirus can attach to particles in secondhand smoke and secondhand aerosols from e-cigarettes. This may make it spread farther in smokers homes. These particles with the virus can also linger in dust and on surfaces for days.
https://www.webmd.com/lung/covid-19-smoking-vaping#2
napi21
(45,806 posts)spread the virus via just talking, sneezing & coughing. I doubt they would contaminate more via smoke. Thttps://lookatwhatimade.net/crafts/yarn/crochet/ammonite-crochet-hook-roll-pattern/unny thing is that I read the other day, testers found "some" indications that smoking could prevent som,e on the spread of the virus. They even included "no medical professional is recommernding people start to smoke!"
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)public buildings. The thing is these virus bits are very small. They can waft around on warm, humid air. Yeah, that's just like what smokers exhale. Isn't it? Better safe than sorry, I say...
It's ok with me if smoking helps protect me from COVID-19 but otherwise it's not much to yap about.
3Hotdogs
(12,209 posts)I wonder how many casinos will be smoke free.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,746 posts)LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)Smoke can help PREVENT the virus....Ironically from guess what --- WEB MD....ummm
One hypothesis is that nicotine, which has anti-inflammatory properties, may interfere with the way that COVID-19 causes an overreaction of the immune system.
The hypothesis comes from Konstantinos Farsalinos, a cardiologist in Greece who focuses on tobacco-use reduction. Farsalinos noticed that few COVID-19 patients who were hospitalized in China were smokers, though about half of men in the country smoke.
Farsalinos and colleagues wrote a new paper available as a preprint and scheduled to be published in Internal and Emergency Medicine. They found that among 13 studies in China with nearly 6,000 hospitalized COVID-19 patients, the rate of smokers ranged from 1.4% to 12.6%. No studies recorded e-cigarette use.
The results were remarkably consistent across all studies and were recently verified in the first case series of COVID-19 cases in the U.S., the authors wrote, calling for an urgent investigation.
Of course, Farsalinos doesn't recommend that people should begin smoking simply to attempt to avoid a severe case of COVID-19. Smoking is still a leading cause of preventable death across the globe.
We all know that smoking is obviously bad for you, Raymond Niaura of New York University told VICE. Niaura co-authored the paper with Farsalinos. It follows logically that smokers would be way worse off. I would think that too. But I've been surprised: That's not the story we're necessarily seeing.
In France, researchers plan to test nicotine patches on hospital workers and patients who tested positive for COVID-19, according to The Guardian.
Another preprint paper, based on a study in Paris, found data similar to that seen in China. Among 350 people admitted to the hospital, about 4.4% were regular smokers.
Data in the U.S. look similar as well, according to the CDC. Among 7,000 hospitalized patients, about 1.3% were current smokers and 2.3% were former smokers, though about 14% of the country smokes."
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200430/smokers-hospitalized-less-often-for-covid-19
OhioChick
(23,218 posts)safeinOhio
(32,530 posts)and have only seen negative studies on pot. I think they have an agenda.