Good idea! Let's ban pleasure as a whole too, while we are at it. No more sex for anything except for reproduction, let's have anti-sexual drive drugs forced too, cause you know, this would stop all the rapers in the world.

Seriously, the idea just sounds ridiculous to me. First, you would start a mafia that would smuggle tobacco, and a lot more crime. Second, yes, it is moralistic, repressive and paternalist. And I already have parents, thank you, and they already have acted as such in my life. I do not need a Papa Goverment to punish me for smoking a damn cigarrette. A cigarrette, for God's sake! And third, ending the tobacco industry would leave thousands without jobs, and even screw up the economy in many countries. Do you know how much of the Cuban economy depends on cigars?

Plus, the idea of banning a plant is just plain stupid, I think. Yes, that goes for marihuana too.