I'm pretty sure any sort of prohibition on cigarettes would go about as well as the prohibition on alcohol, probably even less well because a lot more people are addicted to cigarettes as opposed to addicted to alcohol. I mean, people just wanted to drink alcohol and you'd see them willing to risk jail time to drink it in a speak easy and organized crime shooting other gangs to death over selling it to the people. I think an addictive substance would be much harder to eradicate.
Unless they simply made cigarettes illegal and people still had access to other tobacco products, or went the route of changing the ingredients in the cigarettes as opposed to banning them. Or some other less harsh measure.
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