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satellite2 on April 28, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The health benefits of better air

Interesting, there could be a correlation.

At the same time early in the pandemic I remember reading that being a smoker had a moderate impact in reducing COVID symptoms severity.

FrojoS on April 28, 2021 [–]

I had read about potentially protective effects of nicotine [1], but seems like it was a fluke https://www.nature.com/articles/s41533-021-00223-1

[1] There is even a RCT on this, but no results yet https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04583410

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