The standard for tracking mortality and the effects of pathogenic, carcinogenic and mutagenic agents is now based on birth to 100 years; after 70 years, most of the agent's effects are severely reduced as specific causal modalities.
Smoking shows marked reductions before age 70 which makes it a prime target for both research and abatement.
Society's interest in the health of its population is the subject of much political argument.
It's all likely moot.
Given the looming wars . . . and as the GEORGIA GUIDE STONES illustrate so graphically . . . the puppet masters' plans to actively reduce the world's population to 500,000,000
. . . it's probably MORE likely that measures will be covertly taken to INCREASE cigarette's mortality effects than that they will be removed as a problem.
But that's not really the level of paranoia I choose to live at . . . as logical as it could be construed to be.