cigarette blues – Kami Lerner Cigarette Blues by Roger Hubbard:

I don't have an MD or law degree

This reduction in daily smoking prevalence was not accompanied by an increase in the quit rate* (15.1% in 2021/22 and 17.4% in 2022/23) or by an increase in the prevalence of ex-smokers (reduced from 29.0% to 27.7%)

Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner liked "the first 20 or so jangled pages enough to take it seriously on its own terms and tentatively scheduled it for publication which gave me the push I needed to keep working on it", Thompson wrote

There is no carbon monoxide or tar in the vapour from an electronic cigarette

Cigarette smoke generated carcinogens lodge in clothing, carpets, drapes and other materials and can be absorbed through human skin, especially that of children and infants