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Is Cigarette Smoking Really a Problem?
Cigarette smoking contributes substantially to mortality from certain specific diseases and to the overall death rate. But at the individual level, this very next cigarette is not likely to be a problem for you. Some mismatches between our analytical approach to risk and our emotional response to risk comes about because of our inability to do certain kinds of math in our headswas for examples of this yesterday, and came by an interesting puzzle. How many times would you have to fold it over to get a tower that stretches all the way to the moon? And when i first saw the puzzle, i guessed the answer must be,you knon like you have to Fold it a billion times. And the correct answer