Coronavirus: Smokers quit in highest numbers in a decade

Coronavirus: Smokers quit in highest numbers in a decade Aug 2, 2020 10:32:15 GMT Toasted Cheese likes this

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Post by Stammerhead on Aug 2, 2020 10:32:15 GMT

Aug 2, 2020 6:42:11 GMT gameboy said:

Aug 1, 2020 21:52:18 GMT Toasted Cheese said:

I don’t need to be versatile where obvious and plentiful SCIENTIFIC evidence is available regarding health concerns behind cigarette smoking. You keep going but recommending others stave off quitting until a covid-19 cure is found is ludicrous beyond belief. That you are in denial of this also is mind boggling beyond comprehension.

Toaster, you are such a zealot on this issue that you can't look at it rationally.

The SCIENTIFIC evidence is that there may be short term protection from the corona virus with nicotine. That's all I'm saying here. Quitting smoking now may put more people at risk. The quitters in the OP are foolish. If they didn't quit 6 months ago there is sure as hell no good reason to quit in the middle of this pandemic.

You see the world in terms of black and white. Shades of religious faith against the SCIENTIFIC evidence here, or what?

Toasty, the earth is not flat.

I think foolish is the wrong term and insulting people is not the way to get the message across. It’s still early days on the benefits of nicotine and (as far as I can see) there haven’t been any explanation of how nicotine helps prevent getting Covid-19. If it’s just nicotine in the body then use patches. If the nicotine has to be directly applied to the lungs then use a less harmful method such as vaping. If there’s more chance of dying from lung cancer than there is of dying from Covid-19 then quit.