Pulmonologists reject that nicotine contributes to stopping

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The Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery (Separ) has warned this Monday that there is no scientific data, neither reliable nor contrasted, to ensure that nicotine consumption can have preventive effects on the coronavirus. Pulmonologists speak out in this way after it became known that a group of French scientists are trying to verify this assumption after confirming in a previous study in a Parisian hospital that the majority of those affected by the disease were non-smokers.



The Separ experts insist that there is no reliable scientific data that corroborates that nicotine contributes to reducing the probability of infection and they highlight that, on Phone Number Database the contrary, there is a "many" that demonstrate that smoking facilitates respiratory infections caused by both viruses as well as bacteria. In a statement, they affirm that it has been proven that infections by viruses of the coronavirus family are more frequent in smokers than in non-smokers and that the act of smoking cigarettes involves repetitively bringing the fingers to the mouth, face and nose.



"All this evidence suggests that cigarette smokers have a greater risk of infection with the virus causing the current epidemic than non-smokers," they point out.







They emphasize that tobacco consumption involves the introduction into the body, through the lungs, of more than 4,000 toxic substances, including: nicotine - which is the drug that causes addiction -, oxidizing substances, tars, nitrosamines and carbon monoxide. carbon.

Oxidizing substances, experts explain, are the main causes of lung pathologies associated with tobacco consumption such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), chronic bronchitis, emphysema or pneumonia, among others.



Tars and nitrosamines are "responsible" for the types of cancer that are frequently associated with tobacco consumption : lung, oropharyngeal, larynx, esophagus, pancreas, bladder, among others. For its part, carbon monoxide is the "main culprit" of the cardiovascular pathology associated with tobacco consumption.