[satellite2]

Interesting, there could be a correlation.

At the same time early in the pandemic I remember reading that being a smoker had a moderate impact in reducing COVID symptoms severity.

[FrojoS]

I had read about potentially protective effects of nicotine [1], but seems like it was a fluke https://www.nature.com/articles/s41533-021-00223-1

[1] There is even a RCT on this, but no results yet https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04583410