smoking

As an English teacher, I've enjoyed reading everyone's posts of "I sat down with X book, Y tobacco, and Z alcoholic beverage and had a great / average / transcendent evening." One of the most enjoyable things about my nursery job last summer was that when it *really* rained (ie. drove off the...

So in my quest for the stronger tobaccos, I came across Thuoc Lao. It is a variety grown in Vietnam with its own culture of smoking it in a bamboo water pipe. There has been a lot of confusion stating that it is Rustica, but after gathering information including speaking with Khaibong, I believe...

I'm reading Richard White's Smoke Screens: The Truth About Tobacco. Great book! He digs deep into the studies that allegedly show tobacco causes lung cancer and demolishes them. Some facts: They've never been able to induce lung cancer in animals by forcing them to smoke. The statistical...