# Quote — Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House

> The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.

- Author: [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md)
- Book: [Welcome to the Monkey House](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/welcome-to-the-monkey-house.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut#Welcome_to_the_Monkey_House_(1968)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/welcome-to-the-monkey-house/the-public-health

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> He faced the problem that complicates the lives of cannibals—namely: that a single victim cannot be used over and over.

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> He had only two moods: one suspicious and self-pitying, the other arrogant and boastful. The first mood applied when he was losing money. The second mood applied when he was making it.

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> The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal.  They weren't only equal before God and the law.  They were equal every which way.  Nobody was smarter than anybody else.  Nobody was better looking than anybody else.  Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.  All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

p. 7 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/welcome-to-the-monkey-house/the-year-was.md)