Just wondering how many have actually gotten it (and recovered, obviously). There were some suggestions in studies early on that smoking - and by smoking they always mean cigarettes - decreased the chances of getting it but increased the complications in those that did get it. Of course, you can never believe these kinds of things since people can spout anything they want on the internet but by the same token, if it actually was true, the powers-that-be would NEVER let on for fear of more people taking up smoking as a result. So I just wonder how many of y'all have actually gotten the bug.

I haven't gotten it. (that I know of - may have been asymptomatic who knows)
I also don't know of any other pipe/cigar smoker who has - although I admittedly know very few other pipe/cigar smokers.