Smoking Cures Salmon

Reader's Digest 10月号の記事 "Laugh Line" から引用します。
If smoking is so bad, then why does it cure salmon?

この "cure" を取り上げた記憶がありますが、記録にないので再度辞書の意味を引用します。

・Oxford English Dictionary: Preserve (meat, fish, tobacco, or an animal skin) by various methods such as salting, drying, or smoking.: home-cured ham

・Collins Dictionary: When food, tobacco, or animal skin is cured, it is dried, smoked, or salted so that it will last for a long time.: Legs of pork were cured and smoked over the fire.

・Cambridge English Dictionary: to treat food, tobacco, etc. with smoke, salt, etc. in order to preserve it: cured meats