The public ran the experiment with millions of people around the world smoking a carton of cigarettes a month, and sure enough, large numbers died much earlier than their non-smoking cohorts. The cigarette makers cooperated by loading the product with nicotine to sustain and increase the use, and other dubious ingredients. So confronted with this, the public health professionals "came to the rescue," and aren't dealing with the niceties of the people who smoked much less of something else. The health stats didn't go into that. So blame the government gone awry, but also the manufacturers who cashed in by the hundreds of billions, and not least of all the public. Folks like to blame the someone else over there, and not themselves for their own small part in all this. We've nearly all done too much of something. I'm not sure how much selling tobacco under the counter will "help." People love buying the forbidden, like Prohibition in the U.S. This may be the best sales promotion yet.