[166] We now know that both tobacco smoke and etanol are mutagenic. Cleaning our hands using etanol therefore damages DNA. Moreover the tragedy of tobacco smoke – killing many times as many people as the virus epidemic – and destroying infinetely more DNA than the virus do – is forgotten in the fight against the virus. The general genetic catastrophe is infinitely more damaging and is infinitely more lasting than the virus epidemic. The virus epidemic has proved that the…..