Re: Please somebody help me but...

Well, guess I read you wrong.
So, my thoughts:

Smoking is stupid.
Stupid people smoke.
Therefore people who smoke are stupid.

LOL







"sacman" <hiddencoward@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I must've read the OP wrong: I thought his question was more along the
lines of whether those with, say, a PhD, were more likely to quit than
those with high school education.

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No - you didn't read me wrong. Most people with PhDs are more educated
than people with only a high school diploma. I know that intelligence and
education are not necessarily tied together, but there's a correlation
most of the time IMHO.

Assume Fred has a PhD and Bob has only a diploma. Assume they both smoke.

Who is most likely to quit?

I think Fred is.

Where I work, three of us have degrees, six of us don't. Of the three
with degrees, none smoke, although two are ex-smokers. Of the six without
degrees, two smoke and one is an ex-smoker. Here's an even more anecdotal
observation: even before I quit smoking, I (who have a degree) was
constantly, constantly, constantly giving myself a psychological knuckle
sandwich for continuing to smoke.

Just based on my casual observations, I think the smokers with whom I
interact have no interest whatsoever in learning about the consequences of
their actions. All they hear is "Uh, smoking's bad, m'kay?" To an
uneducated person, that's tantamount to an arbitrary observation. "I've
been smoking for years, and nothing bad's happened to me so far!"

The knowledge that I have dramatically decreased my chances of getting a
smoking-related disease is what keeps me off the cigs. Nothing else could
possibly be worth the torture of nicotine withdrawal.

-sacman



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