> The fact that tax money is spent on various social protection things, like health care, allows to legally limit one's apparently personal choices, like smokin

> The fact that tax money is spent on various social protection things, like health care, allows to legally limit one's apparently personal choices, like smoking, that increase the tax money spending due to those choices. Such is the nature of most, if not any, tax-funded welfare features. This is a logical fallacy - smokers cost much less in terms of healthcare than healthy people. Mostly they die relatively young. Elder and end-of-life care is drastically reduced, and that is the biggest healthcare cost in most people's lives. If you lived to be 80 as a non-smoker, you would probably cost factors more than a smoker who died at 60-70, even with only a few years of end-of-life care.