Just been speaking to my neighbour, Terry, over the fence and I mentioned this business of smoking being a sort of preventitive for C19, particularly as in the past few days yet another in-depth study has agreed with the findings.
Anyway, he recounted the following tale. Seems he started smoking when he was just 8 years old, the only member of his family to smoke. A few years later there was a flu epidemic and he was the only one of all his family and close friends who smoked. In those days, the doctor often made home visits and, on one of these visits to Terry's home, the GP was puzzled as to why Terry was in good rude health whilst all around him were keeling over.
Obviously Terry didn't have a clue then the GP asked him if he smoked. Terry said he did and the GP reckoned he had the answer. He explained that a virus will invariably attack a cold lung and those with warm lungs, such as smokers, very often avoided such viruses. Obviously I have no way of knowing the truth of this but Terry tells me that he rarely has colds and infections and hasn't had so much as a sniffle in the past 10 years. He also added that he took cinammon regularly as a preventitive but again I have never heard of this as being particularly beneficial in warding off bugs.
I'm definitely not an advocate of smoking, even though I do myself, as it can cause all sorts of other health problems but I thought I'd share with you.