People with addictions don&#x27;t have preferences in the sense you mean. The nature of addiction is that it subverts and overrides the (delicate) mechanisms of rational choice.<p>If the principle we live by is maximizing total individual freedom, then I think freedom from addiction has to be part of that.<p>For that matter, much of the point of advertising is also to subvert one&#x27;s preferences. So as a believer in individual freedom, I&#x27;m in favor of ending corporate freedom to profitably manipulate individuals.