This research says otherwise: https://content.gmu.edu/news/584496 https://content.gmu.edu/news/584496 > “Prolonged nicotine exposure systemically—through vari

This research says otherwise: https://content.gmu.edu/news/584496 https://content.gmu.edu/news/584496 > “Prolonged nicotine exposure systemically—through various kinds of smoking habits—may thus provide a cellular mechanism for susceptibility to the virus and impact illness severity,” she said. “The activation of nicotinic receptors by smoking is coupled to how the host receptor for the virus, ACE2, is distributed on lung epithelial cells.”