While we agree that smoking cigarettes is detrimental to one's health, we take issue with the statement said by Miami University Student Health Center Dr. Gregory Calkins in the Feb. 7 edition of The Miami Student. Calkins's said, "Smoking is the single most harmful thing we can voluntarily do to our bodies. It is most definitively the most dangerous thing one person can choose to partake in." We have taken the liberty of compiling a list of behaviors we believe to be significantly worse than smoking.

-Shooting yourself

-Jumping off a cliff

-Standing in a nuclear reactor

-Standing in the path of a 65-Watt laser

-Fork in electrical socket

-Overdosing

-Alcohol poisoning

-Mixing ammonia and bleach in your face

-Shooting at the White House

-Insulting Chuck Norris

-Not eating or drinking for a month

-Putting your head inside a hot oven and falling asleep

-Sitting in your car inside a closed garage with the engine running

-Going into outer space without a space suit

-Drinking molten gold

-Riding a Great White Shark

-Taking a syringe full of air and injecting it into your blood stream

-Eating McDonald's everyday

-Drinking virus vials from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention

-Swallowing a lit firecracker