Committing fraud may not always be wrong — I did it to quit smoking

Image by Olga Oginskaya from Pixabay

Whenever I tell people the story of how I quit smoking by defrauding a foreign government, I get mixed feelings. On the one hand, I managed to do what many smokers never achieve in the course of their lifetime — I quit my habit of smoking a pack of 20 cigarettes per day, which I had been doing every day for ten years. But on the other hand, the only way I could achieve this…