Federal Regulation on Tobacco

In the New York Times Podcast dated June 11, 2009, Jeff Sommer interviews Duff Wilson regarding the new legislation that will certainly be approved by senate regarding the disclosure of the chemicals products used in cigarettes and all type of tobaccos.
This legislation is now possible because of the Democrats who have the majority votes in the Senate.
This legislation will force Tobacco Industry to "get rid" of some of the dangerous chemicals ingredients used in tobaccos, but also regulate the way they do their marketing.
This regulation will reduce the number of young smokers as well as the number of new users. But as they say tobacco will never be banned.
The tobacco industry are arguing that tobacco is not a drug and that menthol is not consider as a dangerous ingredient.
Is tobacco a drug? If not why do people want to regulate it?
Tobacco is considered as a killing machine, it kills more people everyday compare to AIDS for example. But it is only now that something is being made to protect children, those who have never smoked and those who are already addicted.
In developed countries like the United States of America and Europe laws "protect" citizens again abusive industries who only think of their profits. But those legislation only protect a group of people who live on the "good side" of the planet. What about those who live in countries where tobacco industries can actually advertise on television as well as on humongous billboard that are almost everywhere. Those countries can only blame themselves, some people might say. But I say this, if you are protecting a human being from being killed, you should protect all human beings. I guess that is why humanity came up with those International organizations who only act when they have some kind of interest.
If Europe is fighting against tobacco industries and now the United States, I guess it has become a world issues, so what the UN,UNICEF or all those NGOs are waiting for to protect those who are in need by regulating the tobacco industry not only on a national level but on a worldwide level?