After a study saying that smoking prevents Coronavius, French people test nicotine in patients

A Paris hospital study suggested that a tobacco substance probably nicotine was preventing patients who smoked from infecting Avid-19.

Clinical testing for nicotine is waiting for approval of the country's health authorities, writes The Guardian, followed Perisokpi.

However, researchers insisted that they were not encouraging citizens to start smoking, an act known to cause serious health problems and that kills about 50 percent of those who do so.

While nicotine can protect them from the virus, smokers who are infected with coronarys most often develop more serious symptoms because of the toxic effects of lung tobacco, they say.

A team from the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital questioned 480 patients who had tested positively with the virus, 350 of whom were detained at the hospital while the rest with less serious symptoms were allowed to go home.

It found that of those admitted to the hospital, whose average age was 65, only 4.4% were regular smokers. Among those who were allowed to go home, the average age was 44, and only 5.3 percent were smokers.

Considered also the age and sex of patients, researchers found that the number of smokers was much lower than that of the total population estimated to smoke.

A prominent French neurobiologist named Jean-Pierre Changex, who supervised the study, said nicotine could prevent the virus from reaching cells in the body, thus preventing its distribution. /Periscope