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Where there's smoke – the cigarettes-and-Covid story is growing harder to ignore

• elliekelly 6y ago
  I know the vitamin D deficiency theory has been discussed at length on HN but I don't know why it isn't brought up seriously in the cigarette discussion as well. This article just brushes it aside: > Note that the researchers seem to have been pursuing the good old Vitamin D chimera: the poor devils went looking in the fridge for milk and found a pack of Marlboro reds. It makes sense to me that smokers would be the one segment of the population that's consistently _not_ vitamin D deficient: they're forced to stand outside for 5-minutes several times a day while they smoke. Maybe it's the behavioral differences between smokers and non-smokers and not the cigarettes themselves. How do people who vape fare with Covid-19? They're presumably consuming the same (or more) nicotine as smokers but probably aren't going outside for every hit.
  • Mo3 6y ago
    I think I can remember reading sometime that vaping is just as effective with much less health consequences
• quotemstr 6y ago
  Now wait until the public discovers that there really is a relationship between smoking and low BMI. I really have to wonder whether, all-in-all, the campaign to disparage smoking may have been a net negative with the respect to public health
  • locao 6y ago
    As a fat smoker, I really doubt any MD ruled out the BMI off this equation. Every time I go to a medical appointment I am lectured about how my weight will kill me. Smoking? "Oh, you should stop, bye"
• lonelappde 6y ago
  When I smell cigarette smoke I turn around and walk away. Smokers have more social distance from me.