Yahoo News Digest reports that a recent study indicates Americans are about twice as likely to quit smoking if you pay them a reward.

Here’s three lessons we’ve learned from this story.

1. So getting people to quit smoking can be done the same way casinos get people to gamble – by comping them. Hey, we didn’t say these were three valuable lessons.

2. Hey, with the knowledge above, we think we found a way to end smoking in casinos in Atlantic City!

3. Is there really still smoking in casinos in Atlantic City? We haven’t been there recently, so we can only guess yes, because the smoke is necessary to make the casinos not appear empty.

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Tags: cigarettes, finance, Health, Humor, money, Parody, psychology, satire, smoking