the skinny on smoking

We live in a post-modern world where obesity kills more people than starvation. Elaborating on the moral atrocity of the situation is overdone, and preaching guilt about the inequity is akin to a Sunday school teacher telling off the fat kid for not sharing his sweets with his malnourished classmates.

Weight-loss is fucking simple. Take in less calories than you are expending. Repeat until skinny. Logically if people had enough self-restraint and willpower to do this, they would no longer be obese.


In reality we are all busy and constantly ambushed by fast-food outlets. Crucially, we have become so accustomed to instant gratification that we're too lazy to do anything which requires more than a modicum of effort.


If you want to lose weight and you're too lazy to put in any effort, turns out all you need to do is to smoke, according to a recent study published in the British Medical Journal.

If you're lucky you might even end up looking like these people:

So what should you do?