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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.
H. L. Mencken once said something to the effect that “Nobody ever went broke overestimating the vulgarity of the American people,”
perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn’t think about anything except in short bursts.

