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Smoking linked to severe infection
Mounting evidence suggests that, compared with nonsmokers, people who smoke cigarettes face a higher risk of developing severe complications and dying from COVID-19 infections.
For instance, a study of more than 1,000 patients in China, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that smokers with COVID-19 were more likely to require intensive medical interventions than those who didn’t smoke. In the study, 12.3% of current smokers were admitted to an ICU, were placed on a ventilator or died, as compared with only 4.7% of nonsmokers.

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-covid-19-risk-and-smoking.html

Lots of bullshit studies out there that allowed the states to reap hundreds of millions of dollars from the tobacco industry under the auspices of helping to pay for healthcare of smokers in their respective states.

It was a nationwide campaign exercised to perfection.............

1. Pick a target: Tobacco

2. Freeze it

3. Personalize it - nobody likes tobacco smoke

4. Polarize it - smokers are repulsive

5. Demonize it - ban smoking from all airplanes....etc, etc...etc. then bars and restaurants

Now that you have the entire non smoking population on your side, suing the hell out of the tobacco companies was a piece of cake...........

In 2019, Michigan received $1.2 billion (estimated) in revenue from tobacco settlement payments and taxes in fiscal year 2019. Of this, the state allocated $1.6 million in state funds to tobacco prevention in fiscal year 2019...........LOL!

Funny how that works out isn't it?