Nobody wants to see that, its just rude and straight up gross. It's funny how heroin and cocaine are illegal and cigarettes aren't even though they're killing more people than those two things combined. Why should smoking cigarettes be such a big deal to others if its killing more people rather than saving their lives? It needs to end.
The government wants what's best for everybody, that's why they created policies against tobacco use. They came up with these policies for many of good reasons, one being that they want to help prevent people (particularly the young) to not start using tobacco products. Also, these policies are aimed to help those quit using tobacco and to reduce the harmful effects that are caused by theses products. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are trying to regulate tobacco use and protecting kids from buying tobacco. The federal government is getting somewhere but very slowly. In 1965, there was an act passed known as the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act, which required a health warning on every cigarette package. Not only did it require a warning sign, it required the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to submit annual reports to Congress on health consequences of smoking. In July of 1992, the Synar Amendment enacted the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration Reorganization Act. The Act made it so that anybody under the age of eighteen couldn't buy any sort of tobacco product and also prohibits the distribution to minors. The Act made it so that they had to report annual findings to the Security of the Department of Health and Human services. .
In 2009, the federal government passed an Act which is known as Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, the Tobacco Control Act for short. This Act grants the FDA the authority to regulate the manufacture, distribution, and marketing of tobacco products, it also allows the Federal Drug Administration to conduct check inspections of those who retail tobacco.