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The harmful chemicals in cigarettes promote bacterial growth, further exacerbating inflammation

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This commentary is not a defense of smoking

Well anyway, even if you haven't fantasized about enjoying a nice meal of tobacco and scotch, you're hopefully wondering by now what exactly would happen if you just ate a couple of cigarettes

With all the bittersweet regret of a lover looking back on something lost, Klein wrote of cigarettes as a complicated pleasure with a certain philosophical dignity. Klein had quit smoking by the time he finished writing Cigarettes Are Sublime. But his book hints at why some people keep smoking beyond apparent reason: Taken as an object of reflection, cigarettes invite the return of the same, like smoke rings circling round before vanishing. The same comfortable warmth, over and over and over again