Is Nicotine use really about Fungus?

[Tarmander]

Interesting article

makes the case that nicotine use is really about suppressing a body wide fungal infection.

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[S-VV]

Some anti-helmintics are nicotinic agonists, and work by paralysing and killing the worm, but I don't see how nicotine can be toxic to fungus.