Under Obama, the leftists, statists, and proto-fascists have been given absolute free reign to grab, control, politicize and promote every leftist social-engineering scheme, and empire-build in every area of government.
And for the past 6 years, it seems Republicans have given them free run.
Is seems that so long as Republicans can point their fingers and say; "they did it", they really don't care what is foisted upon us.
The FDA must be booted out of the tobacco business, period. Stick to the job, stay within scope, then they could fulfill their proper function without constantly trying to hire more bodies.