COVID-19 and nicotine
Welcome to The Plague Pit. For issue number 39, I’m very grateful to Maria Solovyeva. Maria is a first-year medical undergraduate at Cambridge University. During the first wave of the pandemic, she was a sixth-former at St Swithun’s School, Winchester. There, she found time to write this fascinating article on COVID-19 and nicotine. About two months ago I stumbled upon a whole thread of articles relating nicotine to the pandemic. Some headlines really struck me as vague, bold claims; others…