Mice exposed to cigarette smoke suffer from a type of bowel inflammation resembling Crohns disease By Conn Hastings Researchers in South Korea find that exposing mice to cigarette smoke results in colitis, an inflammation of the colon
Retrohaling the first cigar reminds me of the moment when wood just starts burning, the smell that the embers fill the air with
Lets quickly return to the initial premise: We all know that smoking is bad for us, but sometimes we think that only people who smoke frequently and use heavy cigarettes are really at risk of developing this disease
In essence, Reynoldss scientists reported, a cigarette is a system for delivery of nicotine to the smoker in attractive, useful form. Heres Richard Hurt, a now-retired Mayo Clinic addiction expert who testified during tobacco company litigation, speaking to journalist Jim Carrier: We knew that nicotine was addicting, but we did not realize that [the Marlboro] cigarette was the most sophisticated drug delivery device thats ever been invented This thing looks so harmless, the little white thing that you put in your mouth and puff It was criminal what they had done to my patients, who, unbeknownst to them, had become addicted to a product that was specially designed to do nothing more than to get them addicted, and to kill them
