celebrities are making smoking cigarettes cool again in danger of fashionable again? Cigarettes are making a comeback,

Dried, cured, shredded, and flavoured with herbal extracts, the humble lettuce leaf became the heart of a decades-long personal mission to help smokers quit, not through patches, gums, or medication, but by mimicking the tactile ritual of lighting up

Which is to say that while menthol cigarettes have a gnarled and unsavory past with African Americans (they were passed off by cigarette manufacturers as "a brand for the blacks!", and of course they're the worst kind of cigarettes you can buy), there were a whole lotta white kid menaces (and their gaggles of wannabe followers) who were also stuffing fiberglass down their throats

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(2025, January 31)