> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "It seems like the cigarette is everything a good > solid currency needs to be...." > > Except that you can't smoke your cigarettes and have > them, too.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I would have thought that the fact that cigarettes are valuable from a consumption standpoint is what makes them usuable as currency. Consumption of cigarettes would amount to deflation, but new cigarettes would be constantly entering circulation too. > A researcher with alot of smokes could > probably come up with some interesting monetary theory > experiments. That's what I was thinking. I'm just wondering whether anything such research has been done... Cheers, Michael Giesbrecht Internet Engineering Lucasfilm Ltd.
