A strange thing I noticed while browsing the MM is that some elementals are immune to poison but not others. For example, azer, gargoyles and generic elementals are immune to poison, but magmin, xorn and genies are not. This may be a legacy from 3e, as in that edition elementals were automatically immune to poison, but this doesn't explain every example.
There isn't any explanation given for this, so I will just take it as a given. Not everything about a monster needs some kind of elaborate explanation. The poison in the game rules operates nothing like poison in real life, so it's acceptable that some monsters are immune without explanation. In real life, everything is a poison at certain doses, and different animals have different tolerances.
It's probably best to treat "poison" as an esoteric element, since that would explain its universal effects in the game world.
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