I dunno. The two Americans brought home and treated with the new magic tabacco serum has created a climate of awareness about them that could lead to them being fast tracked and put into the field years sooner than it would have been otherwise, thus potentially saving thousands of lives over the next ten years.
God has his own plans. That $2 million bucks may have been very cost effective method of painting the FDA regulators into a corner where they have to cooperate with instead of frustrate the process.
There was already a drug available in pill form, in Japan, that likely would do the same thing.