No, no. If everybody quits smoking right now, we will all live forever. If anyone does die, it will be peacefully in their sleep at age 800 or so. Smoking is the devil..................Got a light.
I think you're on to something - the nanny state folks are those who were brought up on "don't trust anyone over thirty" and discovered sex, drugs and rock-and-roll. Now that they are a bit older and "feeling your pain" they have taken a different tack - immortality, which they expect to effect by self-denial, jogging, forbiddance of all pleasureable activities like smoking, drinking, foods of recognizeable and desirable caloric content etc. etc.