[lazyasciiart]

That is contradicted by the studies in the linked article

>smokers with a positive Covid-19 test were more than twice as likely as non-smokers with coronavirus to be hospitalised.

> This aligns with research from the US which found hospitalised smokers with coronavirus were 1.8 times more likely to die.

[nyolfen]

i don't think it is a contradiction; "a very small fraction of smokers contract covid or end up in the hospital due to it; those that do are more likely to die"

[lazyasciiart]

This sentence: "smokers are shown to be substantially less susceptible to both catching covid and developing severe symptoms"

is contradicted by the study showing that smokers with covid are more likely to have severe symptoms than non-smokers with covid.