[JoshuaDavid]

Where are you getting a 2% death rate or expectancy that 100% of the population will be infected?

The numbers I've seen are 0.66% death rate, with an average remaining life expectancy of about 10 years among those who die, and estimates that between 15% and 70% of the population would be infected.

70% of 0.66% of 328M is 1.5M deaths, or 15M years of life lost. That is indeed a big number.

Smoking has been estimated to reduce life expectancy by 13 years for heavy smokers. There are about 34M smokers in the US. I don't have the exact stats on number of heavy smokers and how long people smoke for, but assume that the average smoker smokes for 20 years and loses 5 years of life expectancy over that time. That's about 850,000 years of life lost _every single year_ to smoking alone.

I think the question of "would it be worth 5% of the current COVID-19 measures to stop smoking entirely for 1 year" is a valid one.

[andrei_says_]

It would be if smoking was an infectious disease.

[nickthemagicman]

This activity smoking causes a disease.

Leaving quarantine causes a disease.

It's personal choice to do either activity and corona is the only disease where it's somehow the rest of the worlds responsibility for people making poor choices.