France bans online sales of nicotine after study on COVID-19

[LoveVanilla]

France has banned online sales of nicotine substitutes after a study showed smokers are less likely to be admitted for COVID-19

France on Friday banned online sales of nicotine replacements — such as nicotine gum and patches — after a widely reported Paris study found smokers were less likely to admitted to hospital for COVID-19.

In a draft legal text published earlier this week, the government warned there could be a run on nicotine replacements thanks to the study. Pharmacies dispensing treatments for tobacco addiction must limit the amount they issue to an individual patient to a single month's supply.

 

[stols001]

Nothing in there on vaping just patches. IDK.

France does seem like the type of place where like if a sin is found to have virtues, well, they're like "sorry, you gotta take the good with the bad and life as it comes."

Or perhaps they are hoping to like drum up some inadvertent smokers who start from fear of death which is also rather Gallic so who KNOWS.

Anna

This virus in general is brining out the super weird in people.