Many people do not have regular access to primary care, which might enable truly informed choices. That's what the health care debate last year was really all about, increasing freedom so all would have equal access to the information needed to protect health.
Thanks to intensive education, smoking is down, not just in the number of smokers but in the number of smokes used by each smoker.
Freedom does mean you can act as you wish, but it's also integral to the general welfare that we try to keep our people alive.
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