Except cigarettes are a state-run monopoly over there.

The main reason things are going so slowly is that they can't bring themselves to stop making so much money.

The same institution that's supposed to promote the facts about the health-risks of smoking is the one making stupid amounts of money making and selling it.

If they ever stop, it'll be because they transition to other nicotine products, or shift to exporting the product to developing countries (which they already are).