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SheltieLover

(57,073 posts) Wed Apr 1, 2020, 08:10 PM Apr 2020

This is no April Fool's. British American Tobacco is trying to make a coronavirus vaccine

[link:https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/01/business/coronavirus-vaccine-british-american-tobacco/index.html|

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This is no April Fool's. British American Tobacco is trying to make a coronavirus vaccine (Original Post) SheltieLover Apr 2020 OP

So - you don't die from Corona Virus leftieNanner Apr 2020 #1

No. They use the plant as an incubator for antibodies. NutmegYankee Apr 2020 #3

I'm sorry leftieNanner Apr 2020 #4

Not as odd as we might think. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2020 #2

leftieNanner

(15,124 posts)

1. So - you don't die from Corona Virus

Reply to SheltieLover (Original post)

Wed Apr 1, 2020, 08:11 PM

Apr 2020

but the vaccine gets you immediately hooked on nicotine and you die from smoking.

Did I figure this out correctly?

NutmegYankee

(16,199 posts)

3. No. They use the plant as an incubator for antibodies.

Reply to leftieNanner (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 1, 2020, 08:15 PM

Apr 2020

It's been tested successfully before. No nicotine in the final product. It was hypothesized as a potential alternate use for tobacco that would keep farmers afloat.

leftieNanner

(15,124 posts)

4. I'm sorry

Reply to NutmegYankee (Reply #3)

Wed Apr 1, 2020, 08:16 PM

Apr 2020

I should have included:

My bad.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,735 posts)

2. Not as odd as we might think.

Reply to SheltieLover (Original post)

Wed Apr 1, 2020, 08:12 PM

Apr 2020

Much of the early research on viruses arose from tobacco growers' discovery that a virus was causing a tobacco blight. The tobacco virus was the first one ever identified.

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