Smokers are no less at risk than the coronavirus, although there have been studies that support it at the beginning of the pandemic. Is something wrong with science?
Smokers are less at risk than he is COVID-19, alcohol consumption can neutralize the new coronavirus and nasal washes with salt water protect us from infection… Of the scientific paradoxes that followed the outbreak of the pandemic, the finding about smoking was the most striking: How does a lung-harmful habit become protected against a virus that infects the respiratory system?
The first reports of milder illness in hospitalized smokers came from China, with studies from Italy and France later endorsing the nickname "smoker paradox". The controversial findings were recently overturned by a large British study, according to which the risk of hospitalization due to coronavirus is 80% higher for those who smoke.
What did the scientists do wrong then?
Science is evolving with theses only through a series of upheavals and affirmations - and the "Excessive allegations require exaggeration to prove them." The quote from American astrophysicist and astronomer Carl Sagan is quoted by Dr. Mark Shrime, a professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland and a lecturer in World Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, to explain how The "smoking paradox" was a resounding example of the contrast between the slow and complex process of gathering research data and evidence of the unusual versus its rapid and easy adoption by the public.
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