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Re:Smokers quit in record numbers amid Covid fears by xwolfi on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:08AM (#23855677)
In France they give nicotine patch to nurses because they discovered, to their horror, that smokers are heavily under represented in critical cases. Something to do with nicotine.

They're annoyed because that would be like asking people to eat raw sugar to stop drinking Coca Cola, but I'm not yet stopping my cigarets :D

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Re:Smokers quit in record numbers amid Covid fears by distant_hat on Thursday July 16, 2020 @06:15AM (#23857470)
I don't know why you are getting downvoted. This is corrected. It is theorized that nicotine represses ACE2 receptor numbers which the virus uses to enter the cells.
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Re:Smokers quit in record numbers amid Covid fears by zajio1am on Thursday July 16, 2020 @07:44AM (#23857961)
Most issues with smoking cigarettes are unrelated to nicotine, but to breathing combustion products.

Nicotine itself is a mixed bag, it is addictive, but it seems to have some neuroprotective qualities.

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Re:Smokers quit in record numbers amid Covid fears by moron4hire on Thursday July 16, 2020 @08:40AM (#23858364)
Nicotine damages the liver
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Re:Smokers quit in record numbers amid Covid fears by iorrus on Thursday July 16, 2020 @08:54AM (#23858480)
Yeah I took up smoking over quarantine for this reason. Big difference in the case numbers!
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