Because people enjoy taking drugs and they always will. Being a dictator and telling people they can’t do what they want with their own body is hilariously out of touch

It’s the drugs going into air that other people have to breathe, or behavior while under the influence that endangers other people that’s the problem.

And when the government can effectively prevent massive amounts of benzene from going into the air, they are more than welcome to work on the trace amounts of nicotine.

You'd be right, but those trace amount of nicotine are often going straight into our faces for the crime of being downwind of someone smoking/vaping without a care in the world.

Health effects aside, I'd appreciate not having to breath in or smell other people's second-hand smoke/vape.

you are one selfish bastard huh