Time To Give Up Smoking, If You Haven't Already.

[Canary42]

“It is abundantly clear from the research into previous coronaviruses that smoking makes the impact of a coronavirus worse,” said Matt Hancock, secretary of state for health and social care.

https://uk.style.yahoo.com/coronavirus-covid19-smoking-cigarettes-infection-worse-105110113.html

[JimF]

+1

[Ken4155]

I would suggest that the stress of not being able to carry on with our lives as normal would prevent many from even thinking of giving up. We all know smoking is detrimental to our health but it is probably the only pleasure some have left.

[allenlondon]

1987 in my case. Didn’t stop me getting pneumonia in February, mind. (Luck plays a large part, I’m afraid.)

[237SJ]

I wonder if that had anything to do with the mortality rate in China? They`re still big smokers over there.

[Ken4155]

I did 6 days 'cold turkey' while in hospital waiting for a stent to be implanted in one of my veins. That was in 2009 and I've had about 9 cigarettes since then, each of them after a Christmas dinner.

[bookbinder]

I'm relieved, then, that I tried it for only 3 weeks when I was 15.