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...habit of smoking is disgusting to sight, repulsive to smell, dangerous to the brain, noxious to the lung, spreading its fumes around the smoker as foul as those that come from Hell." -King James I, 1604, a few years after Sir Walter Raleigh brought tobacco to England...
...wonderfully suggestive book-length essay "Cigarettes Are Sublime," and Ross McElwee's documentary film "Bright Leaves" - I want to take a calm look at smoking, and its place in the culture, from the inside - from the smoker's hot mouth, wheezing heart, sooty lung and vivid, endlessly rationalizing brain...
...some marijuana, which I'd never tried, and that if I was to appreciate its full efficacy I'd better practice inhaling something. Like cigarettes. The grass never did much for me, but oh, those Benson & Hedges! I can recall sitting in my Brandon Films office after lunch, my brain a-buzz on a contact cigarette high...
...also attributed the spread of beliefs to the active faculty of the human brain, which he referred to as “the intricate activity of neurons...
...process, as previously thought. An additional stage of consolidation then occurs, which actually improves the now-stable memory, so that when the information is recalled, performance is even better than it was after the memory was initially formed. That is to say the brain has continued to learn, even though it has stopped practicing...