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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...
...This is sharp medicine, but it will cure all disease." -Raleigh, 1618, just before he died (not from lung cancer; on the guillotine...
...main texts - Richard Klein's 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...
...like with medications and cognitive or behavioral interventions—generally time-limited, symptom-focused therapies that have been shown to be effective in clinical trials. Sadly, we know far less about preventing depression than we know about preventing many other medical conditions like heart disease or lung cancer...
Rothenberg spent her last years writing about her experience receiving a lung transplant which ultimately did not save her from her chronic illness...