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Another Roiphe speculation: For young people, 'the terribleness of everything' school shooters, climate change, the price of eggs, everything suggests: Why not 'a little stylish self-destruction?'" The conservative columnist adds, "Perhaps teaching middle-schoolers that they are destined to die on a boiling planet is a gateway to smoking."