Can Laughter Kill You?

Photographed by Erin Yamagata. Whoever said laughter is the best medicine may have been trying to kill you. Okay, not really -- but, as it turns out, the age-old axiom we've all come to know and love has a fatal flaw, literally. A new study in the British Medical Journal reviews the many benefits of laughter, as well as an interesting list of potentially harmful consequences. Researchers have been looking into the intricacies of laughter for years, examining its evolutionary origins, how it affe...