Whereabouts are you from? https://www.elysion.uk.com/mylan-baclofen-10-mg-uses-3060.pdf baclofen (lioresal) 20 mg tablet  True, but that's largely a private cost, borne by the individual smoker (through lower lifetime consumption brought about by early death). The "zombie" agument that Auld (and others) attack is that smoking imposes a social cost on people other than the smoker (i.e., through higher publicly funded health care costs). Non-smokers can legitimately complain about costs that smokers impose on non-smokers, but not about costs that smokers impose on themselves.