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You'd think that by the time they've got to the point where law has forced cigarette companies to use the dripping blood font for their name and a diseased lung image for the box, that they've run out of reasons to keep tobacco off of the controlled substances list.
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Except the obvious calls criticizing the Nanny State and the Brussels Overlords. Remembering that democracy is a popularity contest, it makes sense that governments often need to resort to convoluted means of actually making things better. Otherwise the ire flared up in the pro-killing-ourselves-with-toxic-smoke-in-our-breathing-apparatus lot means every party has a harder time with it.
Plus criminalization of tobacco would likely lead to an increase in the harmful effects it causes through elimination of quality control and users being driven underground. And that's a lot of users to drive underground.