Because people have been more and more conditioned to obey year after year. To be absolute pushovers who never fight against the grain, never question groupthink, etc. Grandfathering the criminalization (using violent enforcement) of something like smoking a cigarette is a shining example of what's to come.

Wishing a very chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder on every dumbass calling this authoritarian

Smoking age should follow the age of boomers, age 80+

Just fucking ban it already.