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The study is done with a Covid positive population.

They didn’t study if people who smoked where less likely to get Covid. The study goal, as I understand it, was to theorize the idea that smoking serves as some sort of protection leading to less severe symptoms.

Otherwise the study wouldn’t make sense. The study must have clearly accounted for ratios in the smoking general population against the sample population. That’s the only way it makes sense.

I’m curious what makes you think that smokers isolated earlier than anyone else. I don’t think being a smoker makes you more self-aware of your own health. If anything is quite the contrary.



The OP does have a point. You cannot control for the social isolation factor because there is no data on it.

The people who isolate with 100% success never get COVID and thus are missing from the sample population.

It is also easier to isolate than to give up smoking.




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