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It doesn't seem to take the social aspects of smoking into account. In a sense, smokers were already doing social isolation. I'd bet that people who scream on

It doesn't seem to take the social aspects of smoking into account. In a sense, smokers were already doing social isolation. I'd bet that people who scream on street corners are less likely to contract it than people who spend time quietly on street corners.

cat199 7y ago
digs aside, this is highly culturally dependent - before smoking was quasi-taboo in the west, smokers were often more social and smoking was a 'good' way to meet people - just join the local smoking circle outside. Same is likely still true in less smoking hostile countries.
boomboomsubban 7y ago
While non-smokers may try to avoid smokers, smokers frequently end up quite close to other smokers in any designated smoking area.
whoisjuan 7y ago
The study is done with a Covid positive population. They didn’t study if people who smoked where less likely to get Covid. The study goal, as I understand it, was to theorize the idea that smoking serves as some sort of protection leading to less severe symptoms. Otherwise the study wouldn’t make sense. The study must have clearly accounted for ratios in the smoking general population against the sample population. That’s the only way it makes sense. I’m curious what makes you think that smokers isolated earlier than anyone else. I don’t think being a smoker makes you more self-aware of your own health. If anything is quite the contrary.
- gridlockd 7y ago
  The OP does have a point. You cannot control for the social isolation factor because there is no data on it. The people who isolate with 100% success never get COVID and thus are missing from the sample population. It is also easier to isolate than to give up smoking.
12xo 7y ago
Very few habits are hand to mouth in the way smoking does. Smokers will touch their hands to their mouths hundreds of times a day...without a thought as to where that hand has been.
catalogia 7y ago
The smokers in my apartment building go outside everyday and make social contact with other smokers hanging out outside the door.

cat199 7y ago

digs aside, this is highly culturally dependent - before smoking was quasi-taboo in the west, smokers were often more social and smoking was a 'good' way to meet people - just join the local smoking circle outside. Same is likely still true in less smoking hostile countries.

boomboomsubban 7y ago

While non-smokers may try to avoid smokers, smokers frequently end up quite close to other smokers in any designated smoking area.

whoisjuan 7y ago

The study is done with a Covid positive population. They didn’t study if people who smoked where less likely to get Covid. The study goal, as I understand it, was to theorize the idea that smoking serves as some sort of protection leading to less severe symptoms. Otherwise the study wouldn’t make sense. The study must have clearly accounted for ratios in the smoking general population against the sample population. That’s the only way it makes sense. I’m curious what makes you think that smokers isolated earlier than anyone else. I don’t think being a smoker makes you more self-aware of your own health. If anything is quite the contrary.

gridlockd 7y ago
The OP does have a point. You cannot control for the social isolation factor because there is no data on it. The people who isolate with 100% success never get COVID and thus are missing from the sample population. It is also easier to isolate than to give up smoking.

12xo 7y ago

Very few habits are hand to mouth in the way smoking does. Smokers will touch their hands to their mouths hundreds of times a day...without a thought as to where that hand has been.

catalogia 7y ago

The smokers in my apartment building go outside everyday and make social contact with other smokers hanging out outside the door.