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Right Snuff
Last
week on Reddit someone posited the intriguing
notion "If someone would give you a million
dollars
for a year of your life, how many years
would you sell?"
In my mind I immediately turned that around
to "How much would you pay to add
another year to your life?" After
some contemplation a better question occurred
to me: "How would
you like a free
$145,000 plus an ten extra years of your
life?"
The answer is: Stop smoking.
A recent
study indicates that smoking is not
only responsible for a wide variety
of serious ailments, including laryngeal
cancer, but it also decreases one's lifespan
by as much as ten
years.
As for the
money, that's just math. Two packs a day
at $5 a pack adds up to $145,000 over 40
years, and that doesn't even BEGIN to cover
compound interest. You could buy a pretty
decent house with that. Or
you can rot your lungs. Your choice.
Last note:
In the 8+ years of creating my little
'toons this is the first one about smoking.
Without doubt it's the first comic in the
history of the world whose punchline was
"laryngeal cancer".
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As
some of you know I'm also creating Raging Pencils 'toons for the good folks at friendlyathesist.com.
Number Four in a series of 666 posted today but you'll have to visit their site
to see it. So click either the enticing red link above or the semi-artistic image
to
your
left.
Little Mermaid: Daddy won't let me smoke.
Maybe Ursula can help me.
Ursula: Certainly, Angelfish, and all it'll
cost you is... your voice.
Electronic larynx: As Neptune is my witness
I had no idea she meant laryngeal cancer.
Last
week on Reddit someone posited the intriguing
notion "If someone would give you a million
dollars
for a year of your life, how many years
would you sell?"
