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Smoking is a freedom of speech i.e. personal liberty.

There's a non sequitir for you. What logic lies behind this statement?

In reply to #4, I have always observed that smokers punctuate their lives and actions behind the frame of a butt. In this case, to the smoker it is speech because it is a punctuation and is part of their persona.I have never smoked but I lived with smokers, my dead parents, and each and every activity, thought, conversation were all framed with a butt. Get in a car, light up. Have a meal, light up. Open the mail, light up. Answer the phone, light up. Walk down the street to get some fresh air, light up a butt and display it proudly.

They are telling the world with their actions that they are addicted and they fashionably mimic the dead smokers we all knew too well on TV and in the movies.

But we all know, this kind of speech if one can really call it that was not the speech that the founders considered when they penned the Constitution.

Smoking is as much a part of free speech as is burning the flag. The Supreme Court, by the way, ruled that burning the flag was constitutional.