Smoking and Covid-19

Talk about an inconvenient truth:

...more than 70 epidemiological studies looking at how smokers fare when faced with the virus. In short, the evidence overwhelmingly shows that they are much less likely to get infected.

...[one study] involved 2.4 million people in California and it found that smokers were not only less likely to get infected but were also less likely to be hospitalised [sic], admitted to intensive care and die as well.

So is "I am science" Fauci going to tell people to start smoking Camels as a prophylactic for future variants? Sad or ironic that there's more science now supporting having elementary schools kids smoking during recess than there is "science" saying kids need to wear masks during schools.