[net.suicide] slow premeditated suicide

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!


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			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)