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Agreed. It's like wearing shoes that are too small so you can have the "pleasure" of taking them off.

• baddox 11y ago
  Or exercising strenuously so you can have the pleasure of being in better shape later.
  • tyrust 11y ago
    It's not like that at all. Smoking is effortless (unlike exercising) and leaves you far worse off (unlike exercising).
    • baddox 11y ago
      That has nothing to do with the analogy. The form of the analogy is "do something uncomfortable so that something desirable happens later."