Statistics show that 52% to 46%, more Americans, especially cigarettes smokers, don’t accept the new law which gives the government the power to regulate the manufacturing and marketing of tobacco products.

This month, the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate passed bills by increasing the federal government's capability to control tobacco products. But this study show that the public does not share the same delight for government regulation of tobacco as did Congress.
Researchers think that the smokers and non-smokers desires differ because of education and political party affiliation. Whereas 62% of postgraduates approve of the new legislation, only 36% of those with a high school education or less share this view. Part of this difference may arise from the fact that those with lower levels of formal education are more likely to smoke than those with higher levels.

As was showed before, majority of Americans don’t want to give the government regulation of tobacco, only a very small minority favor a definite ban on smoking in the United States. The poll finds just 17% of Americans saying that smoking should be made "totally illegal" in this country. Gallup has never found widespread support for a universal smoking ban, ranging from 11% to the current 17%, since 1990.

As the number of smokers is decreasing over time, so is the amount of smoking. For example among smokers, 56% said that they smoke less than a pack of cigarettes each day, while 42% smoke a pack or more. Since 1999, a majority of smokers have reported smoking less than one pack of cigarettes per day. But before that year, most smokers reported that they smoked more than a package per day.

This research show that even as fewer Americans are smoking today than in the past, and as those who do smoke report smoking fewer cigarettes, the public appears something unwilling to back policies aimed at further reducing the influence of smoking. A slight majority disapproves of recent low that gives the federal government more power to regulate tobacco, and the vast majority opposes the most extreme anti-smoking policy of a total ban on smoking in the United States.
The precise reasons for Americans' lack of support for anti-smoking policies are unclear yet.