[reilly3000]

There are oral nicotine products that are widely available. You can get smoking cessation lozenges at drug stores, but there are also nicotine pouches sold alongside cigarettes and snus. Some use tobacco nicotine, but many are derived from nightshade vegetables such as tomatoes. If you were considering adding nicotine into your life, this would probably be the safest choice for the throat and lungs. Receding gums and nicotine addiction are very likely consequences as well as risk to the cardiovascular system; proceed with caution.

As a Covid-19 therapy oral nicotine would be easy to scale up and distribute. It doesn't take long to turn around a crop of eggplant or tomatoes, and the processing seems simple enough. Effective dosing, safety and the political difficulties of advocating for safe and limited use nicotine seem to be something that would make any public health professional's head spin.

[ipsum2]

Smoking cessation lozenges are kinda gross, they mimic the taste of smoking.

[kevin_thibedeau]

The point is to be unappealing otherwise there will be no cessation.

[ipsum2]

Right, but it would be bad to use lozenges if you didn't smoke before, which was the parent's point.