Sheesh, over 500 comments, this is going to get lost in the wash. Smoking makes you smarter, guys. Believe me. Five hundred years back we had tracks for roads, open drains, squalor, plagues, et cetera. Look at us now. We've got electricity, cars, computers, and rockets to the moon. The Allies won the war because everybody smoked like troopers. Hitler didn't, and look at the mess he made of every last thing he touched. But Einstein did, along with lots of other smart guys. Helps focus the mind you see. And without it, people lose their edge. Don't believe me? Think about why we don't have rockets to the moon any more. It's fashionable to knock smoking these days, but here's a couple of journal articles discussing smoking and intellectual ability:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/f43533n81707641r/http://www.springerlink.com/content/pj50566667r72779/
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Sheesh, over 500 comments, this is going to get lost in the wash. Smoking makes you smarter, guys. Believe me. Five hundred years back we had tracks for roads, open drains, squalor, plagues, et cetera. Look at us now. We've got electricity, cars, computers, and rockets to the moon. The Allies won the war because everybody smoked like troopers. Hitler didn't, and look at the mess he made of every last thing he touched. But Einstein did, along with lots of other smart guys. Helps focus the mind you see. And without it, people lose their edge. Don't believe me? Think about why we don't have rockets to the moon any more. It's fashionable to knock smoking these days, but here's a couple of journal articles discussing smoking and intellectual ability: http://www.springerlink.com/content/f43533n81707641r/ http://www.springerlink.com/content/pj50566667r72779/