So much for the "Gateway" Theory.
It is a gateway to tobacco use. No doubt about that.
It's more of an "Open-Door" Policy, in practice.
Personal liberty has been replaced by a collective liberty to act out society's whims in the minds of those who fetishize the State.
The WOD is simply a leading aspect of enforcing what is essentially "Socialism with American characteristics", to paraphrase Mao.