Cigarettes became an indispensable soldiers companion during World War I, and by about the 1930s cigarettes (flue-cured or not) were the tobacco product of choice in many countries
By that time, bars, restaurants, and theaters had been off-limits for some time
In 2015, a report issued by the Institute of Medicine found if the tobacco sale age were raised to 21 nationwide, children born between 2000 and 2019 would suffer 249,000 fewer premature deaths, and 45,000 fewer deaths from lung cancer
In purely neurochemical terms, the physical addiction is time-limited
But at the same time, its a business decision, so that was never going to fly