Smoking is Good For You!* : Discovery News

Yeah, obviously smoking is not good for you, but it is nice to see studies that give some credence to the excuses weak-willed people give when explaining why they are unable (or refuse) to quit (“Dude, it totally helps with my writing.” or “Dude, if I have to sit though one more section of LSAT prep, I’m going to switch to crack”).

When you add the results of this study to some of the findings of my own extensive field research - smoking makes you look cool while sitting at a coffee shop reading a local alternative music magazine, smoking makes you look cool while drinking a High Life at a trendy dive bar, smoking makes you look cool while semi-ironically playing bocce at the Fly - I think one can make a strong case that tobacco products may not be as bad as previous thought.

Or maybe not… but you kinda see what I’m saying, right?  Fine, whatever.