Study after study shows that smokers are less likely to get Covid. But this inconvenient truth has been buried.I achieved a personal milestone in April 2020 when, for the first time, one of my articles was flagged up as fake news on Facebook. spiked rather invited trouble by giving it the headline ‘Smoke fags, save lives’, but even with a subtler title it would have been enough to alarm Zuckerberg’s minions, since it discussed the growing evidence that smokers were heavily under-represented in Covid-19 wards.Since back then Big Tech’s fact-checkers were still describing claims about SARS-CoV-2 being airborne and face...