From the very beginning, the idea emerged that smokers were less likely to get covid. Then this case was hushed up, because in any case, no one would even smoke nearby with suffocating people and next to oxygen.
I asked around my acquaintances. It is said that there were significantly fewer smokers in the covid hospital. Well, that is, in the same department in peacetime, people were hospitalized who regularly made scandals about smoking. There were no such scandals after the conversion to a covid hospital.
Maybe smokers got infected less often, maybe they got sick more easily and did not get to the hospital, maybe they died early and did not go to the hospital, maybe they were so seriously ill that they forgot about cigarettes. There could be different reasons.
One practical trick was taken out of this case. If a person after recovery very easily quit drinking or smoking, then this is a bad sign. Something in his body went badly wrong. Because it is usually difficult to get rid of nicotine and other addictions.
In short, active smokers, for some reason, were less likely to end up in the hospital with covid.
Back in the nineties of the last century, such a "paradox of smokers" was noticed in patients with myocardial infarction. For some reason, they were less likely to die of heart attacks. This case was later studied, but no benefit was found. Not confirmed.
In general, it has long been known that smoking has an anti-inflammatory effect in all kinds of ulcerative colitis and other inflammatory bowel diseases. Maybe something similar happens in the lungs.
It was rumored that nitric oxide, which dilates both blood vessels and bronchi, is just more formed in smokers.
Plus, somehow all this chemistry can stop the virus from attacking the cells in the respiratory tract.
What's wrong with smoking
People gather in a smoking-room in a crowd without masks and bawl in each other's faces.
Smokers with their hands with a cigarette climb into their faces and carry the virus there.
It is possible to get a heart attack or stroke even before covid.
Smoking on the lungs can act like on the heart - with vasospasm and thrombosis.
Well, this is all without even thinking about lung cancer.
Shorter
A muddy topic. We may not know the truth.
