[Age of Reason]

Yes; but would you listen?

Apparently many people don't listen to the warnings about smoking.

Those same people might not listen to those same warnings about sex, were sex as dangerous.

But as an ex-smoker of more than a decade, I confess that some of the most blissful moments of my life were spent smoking.

And I often wonder if it is not better to die young from having too much fun.

And I confess, I might even prefer smoking to sex--and I am serious.

When one lives an unnatural life, as we do in civilization, then one might expect to depend upon unnatural activities, such as smoking, as a means of solace.

[Old Professer]

I firmly believe that more people die prematurely from boredom than do from any minor vice.

Second to boredom is loneliness; but that, of course, only for those who were first bored.