mwc (02/15/83)
Being moved to a more serious note by the posting from mitccc. how about the slow premeditated suicide by smoking cigarettes or any other tar containing, cancer causing, substaces. 20 cigarettes a day is 7300 cigarettes each year. Now say you live 40 years (which is good for 1 pack per day) you will have consumed 292000 cigarettes, spent about 14000 dollars, but at least you will be dead. Good huh? It sure must be one of the most expensive ways to die (not to mention painfull because for the last 30 or so years you cannot even breath!). Wow I guess I had better quit smoking right now! ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) () XXXXXXXXXFOOL Now the serious out of the way..... Ziggy P.S. from due experimentation it is apparant that cigarette smoking or the addiction there to is a linear function of time now one can move up and down this curve at will but not with infinite speed, hence the difficulty of 'cold turkey'. (there may be a slight discontinuity near 0 for the addiction curve but where there is a way, and where there is a cigarette there is death Death DEATH)