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The Art of Dying

by Sari Botton December 19, 2019October 19, 2022

In this long, kitchen-sink essay, long-time New Yorker writer and art critic Peter Schjeldahl reveals that he is dying of lung cancer. He poignantly looks back at his life and career, and his history as a smoker.

Posted inBusiness & Tech, Current Events, Quotes

Juuling and Scrolling the Days Away

by Aaron Gilbreath May 9, 2018October 19, 2022

One vape pen to rule them all.

Posted inNonfiction, Story

Mr. Throat and Me

by Longreads October 13, 2017October 19, 2022

When life’s greatest pleasure is the one you have to quit.

Posted inNonfiction

Mr. Throat and Me

by Longreads October 13, 2017October 19, 2022

When life’s greatest pleasure is the one you have to quit.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Taking Up Smoking at the End of the World

by Sari Botton September 15, 2017October 19, 2022

A personal essay in which John Sherman makes a case for picking up a cigarette habit in his late 20s, despite everything he was ever taught about them.

Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

Taking Up Smoking at the End of the World

by John Sherman September 15, 2017October 19, 2022

In his late twenties, John Sherman finds a new fondness for cigarettes, despite everything he was ever taught about them.

Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction

Taking Up Smoking at the End of the World

by John Sherman September 15, 2017October 19, 2022

In his late twenties, John Sherman finds a new fondness for cigarettes, despite everything he was ever taught about them.

collage no "No Smoking" signs
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

(Don’t) Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em

by michelleweber February 4, 2017October 19, 2022

June Thunderstorm, writing in The Baffler with the support of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, digs into the race and class issues that underlie efforts to quell smoking. Is “public health” really the name of the game?

Posted inEditor's Pick

Off Our Butts: How Smoking Bans Extinguish Solidarity

by michelleweber February 2, 2017October 19, 2022

An impassioned essay on ways anti-smoking legislation is, and always has been, about social control — bans that target and dehumanize the poor in the name of public health.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Regulating the $1.5 Billion E-Cigarette Industry

by heymarkarms February 6, 2014October 19, 2022

Even without the combustion, nicotine is a vasoconstrictor that narrows blood vessels and drives up blood pressure. Doing that a dozen times a day is less bad than getting lung cancer, but it’s still not great. Besides, there is no study on what inhaling those “generally recognized as safe” compounds might do to your lungs […]

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