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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.
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Will wrote:
http://www.alastairmcintosh.com/articles/1996_eros_thanatos.htm
Posted 29 Aug 2006 at 10:45 pm ¶
Dan wrote:
Good find. Biologically bizarre that we would develop a psychological drive to die… perhaps useful in cases where one’s own death would help kin with similar genes succeed. Or maybe the brain just had a field day before the genes realized it.
Posted 30 Aug 2006 at 1:38 am ¶