And LOT more people wash their clothes than smoke cigarettes. Also at most stores security is a hell of a lot tighter on cigarettes than laundry soap. Doesn’t and one remember the big Enfamil rings that were busted just a few years back?
No soap detergent when I was little. How well I remember mother shaving slivers from a large bar of yellow laundry soap into a big wash boiler on our wood stove. When it melted, she would bail the boiling water into our electric washing machine(a real luxury). Probably can’t buy this bar soap any more.