Kessler is the hero of Jennings's story, and all who oppose him are pawns of the villainous tobacco industry. Noting that think tanks and members of Congress who criticize the FDA receive contributions from cigarette companies, Jennings implies that complaints about the agency's inefficiency and overzealousness are a way of punishing Kessler for his foray into tobacco regulation. The flaw in this theory is that conservatives and libertarians were calling for reform of the FDA before Kessler decided that cigarettes were covered by the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Jennings never considers the possibility that politicians and think tanks might get tobacco money because they support certain policies, rather than the other way around. For Jennings, there is no legitimate opposition to the war on tobacco.
Smoking is an unequivocal evil that needs to be stamped out.