TMADDOX wrote:
Very interesting and counterintuitive. I wonder if indeed it's the nicotine or something else. Then the dippers who are getting even a higher dose of nicotine are umm, lucky? Where are the liberal trolls that like to pile on Rojo? You're letting us down.
Or maybe the “tar” build up in lungs might protect viruses from permeating through it? Just a wild guess...
Either way, I’m not a big fan of people smoking, period.
Interesting. This is just anecdotal but I did a shift at a covid 19 respite center (homeless guys with covid 19 but no acute symptoms so the city quarantined them in a special shelter/respite). One of the guys was this 65 year old vet who was screened for covid 19 at an inpatient program (someone else was diagnosed with symptoms so everyone was tested). This guy has been smoking at least a pack per day for 45 years, on three inhalers for advanced copd/emphysema. And not a single symptom. Well, he has baseline cough and shortness of breath so maybe he just couldn’t tell the difference, but he was a day 12 and felt great the whole time.
reality based thinking wrote:
People with underlying health issues are not allowed to smoke, hence the correlation.
This
This was sent to me with Judy Mikovits.
bro terrible post wrote:
Bro.. seriously? Smoking is the dumbest thing you can do! There's no way in hell it helps you with anything!
Seriously smoking is the worst decision a person can ever make
No idea why you would at all put out the idea that there is anything good in it
Are you just intentionally trying to be provocative? Aren't you guys athletes and ProHealth?
Anyway there's a lot of deceptive data mining. Pro alcohol and pro tobacco groups are always looking for numbers to help them
Anyway there's been a lot of numbers to show that smoking and air pollution seriously impacts your ability to deal with respiratory illnesses. This is proven fact!
Also what's the moderation policy? Was I getting threads removed because they didn't fit the subject? I see you have a lot of categories so if you post in the right category is that a big reason of whether or not something gets removed
Intentionally provocative? Surely not on these boards?
Nicotine is similar to B3. That is important for the NADPH oxidase pathway.
SARS-CoV-2 interferes with the protective mechanism against NADPH oxidase accumulation via ACE-2.
Nicotine has been shown to increase NAPDH oxidase and so it would seem that a smoker's body would adapt by strengthening their ability to handle this same added oxidative stress. The alternative pathway to deal with oxidative stress would likely be stronger or at least not weak. This would then be an indirect action and so it wouldn't likely be useful as a drug. The adaptation to this probably takes time.
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