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0 pointswhymauri5y ago0 comments

I wonder what the metabolic argument is (if any). Maybe it's something else. Really interesting regardless -- anyone know why there's this restriction?

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dylan6045y ago· 1 in thread

COVID has a serious effect on one's lungs. Smoking does as well. I'm sure they would prefer to see how the medicine works on healthy subjects as a baseline. If it doesn't have the same effect on smokers as the baseline, then you can infer from that. If you just get tainted samples from "diseased" lungs of smokers in the original testing, then that could skew the results. That would be my SWAG.

whymauriOP5y ago

True, true. Maybe the chewing tobacco is meant to be a proxy for smoking earlier in life.

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