The tobacco Endgame: Is It Possible? By Thomas E. Novotny. PLoS Med 2015;12(5):e1001832. Published May 29, 2015.
"Now, however, rather than thinking only about 'tobacco control,' which implies that humanity should settle for the tobacco epidemic being permanent in some populations or at least at some lower hazard level overall, experts are discussing new strategies that are necessary to greatly reduce the global tobacco-related disease burden. These out-of-the box ideas include the following: removing the profit incentive from selling tobacco products by changing the ways in which the market is administered; reducing the level of addictive nicotine to nonaddicting levels in all tobacco products; addressing the supply side of tobacco use by imposing a 'sinking lid' on the industry to gradually reduce quotas on sales and production of tobacco products, similar to proposed reductions on greenhouse gas production; establishing truly smoke-free generations by prohibiting possession of tobacco products by all persons born in 2000 or later; and the heretofore unthinkable abolition of tobacco product manufacture and sale."
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001832
Note that with e-cigs deemed to be tobacco products, this would apply to them as well. And Novotny and his fellow criminals are so fanatical that they wouldn't stop at eradicating every plant and scraping away the topsoil to expunge every nicotine molecule everywhere on the planet.
"Now, however, rather than thinking only about 'tobacco control,' which implies that humanity should settle for the tobacco epidemic being permanent in some populations or at least at some lower hazard level overall, experts are discussing new strategies that are necessary to greatly reduce the global tobacco-related disease burden. These out-of-the box ideas include the following: removing the profit incentive from selling tobacco products by changing the ways in which the market is administered; reducing the level of addictive nicotine to nonaddicting levels in all tobacco products; addressing the supply side of tobacco use by imposing a 'sinking lid' on the industry to gradually reduce quotas on sales and production of tobacco products, similar to proposed reductions on greenhouse gas production; establishing truly smoke-free generations by prohibiting possession of tobacco products by all persons born in 2000 or later; and the heretofore unthinkable abolition of tobacco product manufacture and sale."
http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1001832
Note that with e-cigs deemed to be tobacco products, this would apply to them as well. And Novotny and his fellow criminals are so fanatical that they wouldn't stop at eradicating every plant and scraping away the topsoil to expunge every nicotine molecule everywhere on the planet.
