This is to be expected. The profit model for tobacco companies is a tried and true one. Hook kids and teenagers by making smoking look cool, really set the hook by making sure that entry-level products contain addiction-reinforcing levels of nicotine. The fact that they were stopped for any length of time is great, but corporate entities are by their nature a-moral and profit-focused. Tobacco makes THE MOST money when kids start smoking and don't stop until dead.
In a way they were never really stopped. After this crash, I read how an anonymous tobacco spokesperson said what he saw was two packs of Marlboro smashing into each other. The article mentions that Philip Morris has continued to sponsor Ferrari with $100 m/year and from what I've heard they get a veto on which other sponsor decals gets on the car. Maurizio Arrivabene who was their team principal before this season came directly from a VP position at Marlboro. I wonder what the demographics of F1 fans looks like these days. From what I've heard TV ratings has been sloping downwards for a long time now since moving the live streams to premium channels in many countries, and I wonder if they are gaining any fans in the younger segments. Most of the time it's not an exciting sport to watch, the playing field is hilariously uneven, and everyone involved has been trying to milk as much money out of each other for a long time now.