Health has little or nothing to do with the so-called smoking issue. It has far more to do with taxation. The true health crusaders want to ban all smoking for health reasons, but the liberals and other even Republican politicians cannot give up cigarettes as a major source of tax revenue.
If the health crusaders were to succeed, a major budget crisis would happen in nearly every state. However if economic forces prevail, the higher taxes will drive smokers to quit or seek cheaper sources (bootlegged, Indian Reservations, mafia etc.)also creating a budget crisis.
Sure is fun to watch!
The true believers are the useful idiots of the Dem shakedown artists. The dems don't want to ban smoking, they just want to skim their cut of the profit!