cigarettes gateway drug Is There Really Such a Thing as a “Gateway Drug”? Gateway Drugs (Tobacco, Alcohol, Marijuana)

People also tend to assign an importance to what they [the news media] include that closely resembles the emphasis given to events, issues and persons from the mass media. Accordingly, the tobacco industrys influence on the media in turn shapes public perceptions of the issues

I have also had to be honest with lifelong heavy smokers that we are rescuing what we can rather than turning the clock fully back

Neergaard J, Singh P, Job J, Montgomery S: Waterpipe smoking and nicotine exposure: a review of the current evidence

In addition to stimulating your nervous system, nicotine is highly addictive and can serious cause damage to your body over long periods of time