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I really would like to know if smoking is implicated. Are there any smoker/nonsmoker stats anywhere?

dredmorbius 7y ago
Yes, though that's mostly rolled up in the gender statistics. Men are far more likely smokers than women in China. Mentioned in TFA.
- Spare_account 7y ago
  Is the F in 'TFA' what I think it is?
  - severine 7y ago
    Fine is fine.
    - dredmorbius 7y ago
      Sometimes some of the letters are different.
  - Simon_says 7y ago
    Yes, you're right. It's "featured".
  - rkuykendall-com 7y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM > RTFM is an initialism for the expression "read the fucking manual". > RTFA ("read the fucking/featured article"—common on news forums such as Fark.com[6] and Slashdot, where using "TFA" instead of "the article" has become a meme)
bart_spoon 7y ago
I don't know of any studies looking specifically at smoking vs non-smoking, but its been highly speculated to be a strong risk factor. Apparently, there is a big gap in prevalence of smoking between men and women in China (close 50% for men, closer to 5% for women), which is thought to be at least partially an explanation for the differences in deaths (2/3rds of deaths were male, 1/3 were female).
DonaldFisk 7y ago
There's this paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/all.14238 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/all.14238 "Low prevalence of smokers, and no allergic diseases despite of drug hypersensitivity and urticaria was self-reported by any patients, indicating that allergic diseases and smoking history may not be the susceptible factors for COVID-19." And this one: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.05.20020107v2 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.05.20020107v... "Together, this study indicates that smokers especially former smokers may be more susceptible to 2019-nCov and have infection paths different with non-smokers." They reach opposite conclusions.

Yes, though that's mostly rolled up in the gender statistics. Men are far more likely smokers than women in China. Mentioned in TFA.

Spare_account 7y ago
Is the F in 'TFA' what I think it is?
- severine 7y ago
  Fine is fine.
  - dredmorbius 7y ago
    Sometimes some of the letters are different.
- Simon_says 7y ago
  Yes, you're right. It's "featured".
- rkuykendall-com 7y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTFM > RTFM is an initialism for the expression "read the fucking manual". > RTFA ("read the fucking/featured article"—common on news forums such as Fark.com[6] and Slashdot, where using "TFA" instead of "the article" has become a meme)

bart_spoon 7y ago

I don't know of any studies looking specifically at smoking vs non-smoking, but its been highly speculated to be a strong risk factor. Apparently, there is a big gap in prevalence of smoking between men and women in China (close 50% for men, closer to 5% for women), which is thought to be at least partially an explanation for the differences in deaths (2/3rds of deaths were male, 1/3 were female).

DonaldFisk 7y ago

There's this paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/all.14238 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/all.14238 "Low prevalence of smokers, and no allergic diseases despite of drug hypersensitivity and urticaria was self-reported by any patients, indicating that allergic diseases and smoking history may not be the susceptible factors for COVID-19." And this one: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.05.20020107v2 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.05.20020107v... "Together, this study indicates that smokers especially former smokers may be more susceptible to 2019-nCov and have infection paths different with non-smokers." They reach opposite conclusions.