> <[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.

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