I'd alter that to say they carry out the agendas of the hidden-influential others. (Olgarchy). BT, BP, other well-meaning people paving the road to hell with ignorance and fear.
The really SAD thing is that in modern times we should have, or could create, reasonable scientific models to show the optimal results. Think weather forecasting, but with health variables (after all, it all gets back to health and addiction as a rationale). We should be able to use some combination of rational scientific methods AND compassion/freedom/options. That's why e-cigs were invented.
But we're being treated like mushrooms and it's all the agenda and influence that ticks me off the most. And I don't think career bureaucrats have much of a personal agenda at all, unless they represent "other forces". They're more like the [very important] cogs in the machine, but they aren't turning the crank.
I think it is about BT, BP and some combination of congress critters and all those anti-smoking groups CASAA's video detailed...
And I don't think the POTUS has time to deal with these details, he only "knows" what his handlers tell him.
Just