smoking is bad but banning it is worse, you can mark in western countries when freedoms really started drying up and them outlawing the 3rd places of smoking is definitely one of them.

poisonous fast food and alcohol is worse but they don't ban that - it's because nicotine is unironically medicine and prevents colds/sars2 infection in lungs
>https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7836994/

"COVID-19 positive patients who smoke are more often asymptomatic or exhibit less severe respiratory symptoms than non-smokers.
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The macrophages, which are directly infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, may drive the cytokine storm in the lings.
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Stimulation of macrophage ACh receptors by nicotine inhibits pro-inflammatory cytokines production and inflammatory response.
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The nicotine use may lessen or eliminate ARDS in the smoking COVID -19 patients. "