How Cigarettes Prevent Corona Virus

How Cigarettes Prevent Corona Virus

Prevention of smoking and drinking and corona19? Chinese experts "Based on ...-Yonhap News
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(Beijing = Yonhap News) Correspondent Jin-Bang Kim = With the spread of new coronavirus infections (corona19) in China, the wrong way to prevent smoking or drinking from preventing corona19 is widespread.

Chinese health experts advised that there is no basis for credibility in this wrong way of prevention.

According to local media, such as Beijing Youthbo on the 14th, the topic on the previous day on Weibo (微博·Chinese version of Twitter), the topic of'Corona 19 confirmed smokers are significantly less smokers than non-smokers'.

This article is based on a paper analyzed by 1,99 confirmed patients by the research team of the Chinese Institute of Chinese Medicine, Nannan Mountain, the highest authority on respiratory diseases in China. It is said to be much lower.

This article attracted great attention, including over 100,000 views in two hours of posting, and 30,000 concurrent subscribers in real time.

Beijing Youthbo reported that the claim of this article was completely different from the fact.

As a result of the Beijing Youth Report confirming the relevant papers, the papers did not mention the infection rate of smokers and non-smokers, and statistically, it was found that the population was too small to be meaningful.

In addition, it was confirmed that the research team of Zhongnan Mountain yarn did not comment on the correlation between smoking and infection.

The newspaper traced the ID that posted the article, confirming it was identified as a tobacco marketing account.

"The claim that smokers have a low infection rate has no basis," said Zhongnanshan yarn.

Recently, in China, smoking and drinking have helped to prevent corona19.

 china, which suffered difficult situation for the most from COVID19," and "the high alcohol content in Baiju played a role in combating coronavirus." Insisted."

However, Chinese experts pointed out that "the claim that smoking and drinking can help prevent infection is a fake news without scientific evidence." "The best way to prevent infection is to thoroughly control personal hygiene, such as wearing a mask and washing your hands." .