Politicians don't want to offend the tobacco lobby. So laws are passed against not wearng seat belts. The better solution is to pass laws banning cigarettes, as Tennessee and Iowa did. That better solution renders everyone a non-smoker, the group far more likely to wear seat belts. In Michigan, by law , the Legislature in 1909 reacted to such data, and made cigarettes with deleterious ingredients illegal.
Cigarettes are contraband.
There is no right to use contraband. Smuggling has well-understood meaning . . . Black's Law Dict , supra , p 1389. In fact, in 1909, during the administration of three-term activist Governor Fred Warner, the Michigan legislature passed a law forbidding cigarettes. Governor Engler and his staff have been supportive of the law and trying to halt cigarette smuggling, issuing five memoranda on the subject.