&gt; if you accept that health benefits can outweigh personal freedom, where do you draw the line?<p>I don&#x27;t see cigarettes as a personal freedom issue. As long as you find people insensitive enough to smoke in public areas and force those of us that don&#x27;t smoke to breathe their toxic air, cigarettes should be taxed just like other pollutants are. Taxes are one of the few ways that capitalism has of dealing with externalities.