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On a walk, a longer walk than usual, we added a turn around a park pavilion, a turn that we’d never taken before. I was listening to This American Life, to a long segment by the writer Sean Cole about his struggle to stop smoking cigarettes. And I started thinking about cigarettes.
#cigarettes#smoking
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Menthol trickery
Menthol trickery
Here’s a deeply researched and deeply disturbing book: Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021), by Princeton historian Keith Wailoo. Wailoo begins with Dave Chappelle’s question: “Why do black people love menthols so much?” The joke answer, of course: “Nobody knows.” But tobacco companies and advertising consultants know.
#cigarettes#smoking#advertising
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Menthol trickery
No smoking
No smoking
“It’s twenty-five ago today that I smoked my last cigarette. And I still notice the cigarette displays in convenience stores and supermarkets. Look, there are the Camels. Look, there’s the Drum.”
#cigarettes#smoking
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No smoking
At the Dr. Grabow plant
At the Dr. Grabow plant
“The last time I saw someone smoking a pipe, the bowl had three or four inches of cigar in it. Before that? I can’t remember when I last saw someone smoking a pipe. But I do remember seeing the name Dr. Grabow back in my tobacco-stained past.” With the mysteries of fraises and Tripoli buffing explained.
#dowdyworld#smoking
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At the Dr. Grabow plant
A pipe with a cigar in it
A pipe with a cigar in it
Navigating the parking lot of my local multinational retail corporation, I noticed a man behind the wheel of a station wagon. He was smoking a pipe with a cigar in it. The bowl of his pipe held perhaps three or four inches of cigar. Why?
#smoking
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A pipe with a cigar in it
Nineteen years later
Nineteen years later
"The day I smoked my last cigarette — October 8, 1989 — still sticks in my head. October 8 has become an anniversary of sorts."
#cigarettes#life#smoking
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Nineteen years later