Well, I'd rather live in a society that leaves me the hell alone and lets me decide for myself.

Wow, you've got some bassackwards ideas there. You think freedom is a society that executes people for saying the wrong thing, but slavery is a society that lets you say whatever you want while attempting to persuade you down a particular path via advertising. You honestly sound like Communist. That's not even an exaggeration. I literally mean that's the kind of thing a Communist would say. You hate commercial advertising, and you want to force people to behave a certain way be executing anyone who doesn't conform to the state's ideology. Perhaps you'd prefer to move to Russia? I hear tyranny and totalitarianism is on the rise there. I think you'd get along with Vlad Putin just fine...

How free is a society that brainwashes me into thinking the way the majority of emotion-driven morons thinks?

An honest society outlaws tobacco. A dishonest society engages in a half-century campaign of brainwashing to demonize tobacco so that people not only reject tobacco, but those who choose to indulge (all the while brainwashing them into embracing the scum who indulge in real mind-altering substances).

I'd rather live in an honest society. Then, if the majority of people truly do believe that smoking tobacco is harmful, it's an honest decision arrived at rationally.

I hope you're not surprised; you know I've opposed crime prevention all along. Wait til I violate the law, then prosecute me, don't pass laws preventing me from potentially violate the law (such as texting-while-driving laws, which are designed to prevent me from being distracted from driving, not designed to punish me for having an accident).

At least in a totalitarian dictatorship I can spit in the eye of my persecutors before they execute me without having to live in a delusional world, pretending to be one of the pod people (who would never execute me, far preferring using more... extreme... measures to get me to conform with their idiocy than honestly executing me).

Maybe that should be - "The requirement that other people will not say anything that you don't want to hear, shall not be infringed." ?

So you would rather live in a totalitarian dictatorship than a free society?

You have it backwards.

They're doing it right; making a behavior illegal and punishing its violation, retaining the individual's right to choose.

changing the acceptability of a behavior has another name.... brainwashing.

I'd rather face a firing squad for saying something illegal than be brainwashed into not saying the very same thing while preserving its legality to say.