I Loved Smoking
That still-nascent stage of our era of New York dance music made a lot of us feel as if we had double lives. Most of us were well-behaved people. We had professional jobs in the city and then we would come home to Bushwick and do drugs and have experiences that people in our larger demographic had no idea were happening, at least not to the depth t
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Whenever a note takes off and spreads like wildfire, I take it as a sign that a deeper conversation lies beneath the surface and must be excavated:
... See moreNot too long ago, you could smoke in grocery stores and movie theaters, on planes, in hospitals, and even in elementary schools. The fact that smoking was so common made it harder to see how dangerous it was. As physician and author Siddhartha Mukherjee documents in his history of cancer, The Emperor of All Maladies, at the time, blaming cancer on
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