I think too many people would never say anything that doesn't agree to what majority thinks. They would not dare to speak out against injustice if majority thinks it is all business as usual. Herd behaviour is what resulted in every wrong doing in history and yet still we are here.
Do you think you might be completely overeating? It is only tobacco, it hardly rises to a wrongdoing in the historical sense, that classification is reserved for incidents like sewing Carthage in salt, the Reign of Terror or the Cultural Revolution. Tobacco is just a luxury, the fact that you can't get what you want when you want is not an injustice, it's an inconvenience.
Or perhaps you're right and Sable is the market master for the Tsarist Tobacco Hoarding Commissariat, and he merely has us programmed. Fight on modern Gracchi!