How Much Should You Get Paid To Smoke?

If someone asked you to sacrifice your health for money you could make a rational claim that under the correct payment regime coupled with a satisfactory health degradation that a deal could be struck.If someone offered you enough money to retire but you lose five years of your life and or your well being decreases somewhat some people may take that tradeoff.After all many people trade their health for money for example miners or people who work in hazardous industries.This happens all the time .So If someone paid you enough to smoke knowing the health hazards you could make the case that it is rational.However if someone offered you free cigarettes to destroy your health and would pay you nothing it would be irrational to accept that because you have your health to lose but nothing to gain.The third scenario which is the real world scenario has people paying money to destroy their health and getting no benefits in return.So you lose your health and pay for this privilege so you lose in every possible way.The worst of all worlds. Extremely non rational and of course the same goes for any sort of narcotic.When someone reads this it will either resonate with them and they will understand it by the time they have read this far or even anticipated the conclusion and if they haven't started smoking never will or if they do smoke will stop.For the others a life of confusion and toil is almost certain.This simple exercise in worldly wisdom will separate those who think and act rationally from those who don't.