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Smoking doesn't make you happy
January 15, 2009 by Anonymous, 42 weeks 2 days ago
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And I suppose too, that children who demonstrate “specific patterns of aberrant behavior†and whose brains exhibit “disrupted social information processing, lower social competence and significantly higher levels of aggressive/destructive behavior and stubborn defiance†chose to be born to mothers who smoke rather than mothers who don’t smoke.
Above from a recent NIDA study. Addicts are the world's greatest rationalizers.