November 22, 2007
Menthol, in particular, can make starting and continuing to smoke easier, as it provides a cooling, numbing effect that masks the harsh taste and feel of smoking
Smoking also makes people more vulnerable to worse COVID-19 outcomes, and, as we know, the pandemic has disproportionally harmed Black communities
This toxic fog gets vacuumed down the airway and into tiny air sacs in our lungs called alveoli they look like clusters of grapes, surrounded by dense cobwebs of blood vessels
It remains true of the continued legal prohibition on narcotics. But Berrick points to two historical precedents for generational phase-out, in regulations that successfully curbed opium smoking in Taiwan, then known as Formosa, in 1900 and Sri Lanka a British colony at the time in 1911