{"id":2215,"date":"2022-02-11T08:10:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T08:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/11\/cigarettes-rationality-and-hitchens\/"},"modified":"2022-02-11T08:10:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T08:10:33","slug":"cigarettes-rationality-and-hitchens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/11\/cigarettes-rationality-and-hitchens\/","title":{"rendered":"Cigarettes, Rationality, and Hitchens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Substack <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/cigarettes-rationality-and-hitchens\">latest<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0282e1436cd1200b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hitchens shirtless smoking\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c0282e1436cd1200b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c0282e1436cd1200b-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Hitchens shirtless smoking\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">Let&#39;s talk about cigarettes. Suppose you smoke one pack per day. Is that irrational? I hope all will agree that no one who is concerned to be optimally healthy as long as possible should smoke 20 cigarettes a day, let alone 80 like Rod Serling who died at age 50 on the operating table. But long-term health is only one value among many. Would the creator of the celebrated Twilight Zone series (1959-1964) have been as productive without the weed? Maybe not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substack latest: Let&#39;s talk about cigarettes. Suppose you smoke one pack per day. Is that irrational? I hope all will agree that no one who is concerned to be optimally healthy as long as possible should smoke 20 cigarettes a day, let alone 80 like Rod Serling who died at age 50 on the operating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/11\/cigarettes-rationality-and-hitchens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cigarettes, Rationality, and Hitchens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,398,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-hitchens-christopher","category-reason-and-rationality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}