Tobacco has to be grown, whereas alcohol can be synthesized out of sugars or carbohydrates and yeast, two things that are very abundant all over the world. I d

Tobacco has to be grown, whereas alcohol can be synthesized out of sugars or carbohydrates and yeast, two things that are very abundant all over the world. I don't doubt that there will be some people who sneak around the blockade, but I believe that this wouldn't cause a tobacco based prohibition scenario of speakeasies and black market cigarette running on anything approaching the scale of prohibition.