The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Ameri…

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The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide. ✨ Welcome to the Monkey House. Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Preface), 1968.
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