Or... at least it will soon.

O RLY? YA RLY.

Is Tobacco the Next Anti-HIV Weapon?

I give this a 20% chance of being an early April Fools joke.

Nah. It's probably right, but obstacles for this kind of drugs to reach advanced phase studies are huge. Not to mention that the article title is slightly misleading, since the drug in question is of a preventative nature only, and would have a hell of a lot of trouble to go from the in vitro essays to real life, phase III human studies.

Aids or lung cancer?

Hey, but what if it hasn't cured your aids yet and you get bronchitis from smoking? YOU'RE FUCKED!