If they were mostly democrat supporters we would all be hearing about the “benefits of bathing your lungs in healthful smoke”
I’ve heard that idea too. Democrats used to get the lion’s share of tobacco company donations mostly because they were from Southern tobacco producing states. When those donations started going to republicans in those states, the dems all of a sudden “discovered” how awful tobacco companies are. Al Gore makes me sick. He used to BRAG about his family’s ties to tobacco farming. Now he says he’ll fight them “until his last breath”.