High risk muffin

"We eat muffins when things are really bad," the person in charge of the office I'm in just explained to me.

That's all very well, but surely it's a policy with a high risk of obesity? At least smoking when things are bad makes you lose weight.

Not that I'm condoning smoking - I think it's a filthy habit and I would only do it if I was in a film or pretending to be in a film. But I can't help feeling that if I applied the muffin-when-things-are-bad method to my own life I would need to smoke two or three packets of cigarettes a day to compensate.