SciFi reads

Just read a short sf story written about 1960, probably in response to fresh medical evidence linking smoking with cancer. I guessed where it was heading about halfway through, but it was still a good read, and available from Project Gutenberg. The story is about labs around the world struggling to find a cure for a new lethal virus that was produced accidentally. All children, some ethnic groups and about fifty percent of the rest of the world had already died or were dying. The cure? Smoke like crazy! Can just imagine if something like this happened for real. "Smoking only" public venues and shops everywhere.