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
Those of us 60 and over would never have to ever worry about living to 120 and running out of smokes
What truly sets this cigar apart is its bourbon infusion
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Tobacco Control BMJ 2012