[Sloth]

Cheating on a test is an attempt to acquire better grades, something that parents usually value & which are alleged to impact future success. Smoking is not undertaken for any such long-sighted goal. Therefore cheating is an immoral but rational gamble, while smoking is simply stupid.

[Madame Dufarge]

Cheating on a test is an attempt to acquire better grades, something that parents usually value & which are alleged to impact future success.

This is so breathtakingly stupid that it doesn't deserve a reply, just a spotlight.

[maryz]

& which are alleged to impact future success.

Uh, the way I heard it was that learning was supposed to impact future success; the grade is supposed to indicate to the teacher whether you were in fact learning.