CIGARETTE BUTTS SPEAD CORONAVIRUS

Granted, there are plenty of things to consider during the coronavirus pandemic.

I have yet to see discussion of the role of cigarettes, cigars, vaping, tobacco, in

 a. the spread of the virus, and

 b. the compromised health of tobacco users lungs and immunity.
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"Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. 

This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day. "

Center for Disease Control statistics

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Consider, then how cigarette butts are certain to spread the virus.

Saliva on the discarded butts travels to the table top, to the counter tops, inside cars and every surface imaginable that smokers touch while handling their cigarette, pipe, or device.

Discarded butts on the street, sidewalk, driveway, or floor-----saliva and the coronavirus gets dispersed by shoes and feet. What was outdoors comes indoors.

Consider, how exhalation of smoke riddled with Virus may linger in the air or confined spaces.

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Don't sit around for the CDC, Center for Disease Control, or the FDA, or anyone "Big Tobacco" beholden politician to inform you about the obvious:

TOBACCO USE, DISCARDED AND ACTIVE CIGARETTES, ARE CERTAIN TO SPREAD AND PROLONG THE PANDEMIC.