You haven't fully thought it through. Consider the steps in sequence:

I don't think you really grasp the concept. There is a direct and quantifiable harm caused when you exhale tobacco smoke into the air I'm breathing. If I'm in a room with you and you light a cigarette, the proximate cause of me inhaling toxic fumes is your smoking. The proximate cause of a drunk driver hitting someone…

You missed the distinction between direct and indirect harm.

It would certainly be more useful than the abstract and a "no you can not haz" message.

The government has no right to stop people from making choices that are bad for them, but it does have the right to stop you from injuring others. I would argue that smoking falls into the latter category, because others are directly effected by your second hand smoke, where as alcohol the former because others are,…

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Not being a part of the problem is not the same as being part of the solution.

I don't think we should try this on humans.

Once it's written and reviewed, you have your journal.

Actually, the production of this content is free. The journals pay the authors and peer reviewers absolutely nothing.

The scientists don't see a single cent from those subscription fees.

That's one possibility. We don't know yet.

It's believable that Data might choose to remain humanoid. He is effectively immortal, so from his perspective he has plenty of time to go singular at a later point, once he's explored humanity.

Presumably it's based on the lunar cycle. You wouldn't use seasons to demarcate time if they aren't stable.

More importantly, it seems likely that the known part of the planets is just the northern hemesphere, as the far south sounds equatorial.

That's pretty much what I'm saying. I'm not arguing that 'healthy living' doesn't correlate with good mental health. Quite the opposite, I'm reasonably certain it would and I'd wage someone's already gathered a statistically significant sample to prove that correlation if either of us cared to trawl through the…

Better to just do it and let it be a fait accompli.

So if you fall off a bike and break your arm, your preferred treatment method is riding lessons? Sometimes you have to treat the symptoms before you can solve the underlying problem.

By your own argument, if a pill can balance you to the point that you're able or likely to adopt a healthy lifestyle, wouldn't it be wise to take it?

Those things aren't mutually exclusive.