Are cigarettes a controlled substance?
You seem to be equating cigarettes to crack but that can’t be right. That would be a an idiotic comparison.
They are regulated, and were they not, what do you suppose the victim would peddle that would have similar marketability? The obvious point is he would have found something. Probably something Illegal.
He resisted arrest. Rule number one is when a cop says you are under arrest, you comply. Something he should have learned from his many previous encounters with cops.