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  1. May 2023
    1. In her markings, Rose Caylor gave us a sense of her husband, the playwright Ben Hecht. In her copy of “A Child of the Century,” which Mr. Hecht wrote, she had drawn an arrow pointing to burns on a page. “Strikes matches on books,” she noted about her husband, who was a smoker.

      This is a fascinating bit of reading practice.

  2. Apr 2023
    1. Sorkin had been a heavy smoker since high school — two packs a day of Merits — and the habit had long been inextricable from his writing process. “It was just part of it, the way a pen was part of it,” he said. “I don’t want to talk about it too much, because I’ll start to salivate.”

      For Aaron Sorkin smoking was a tool that was part of his writing process.

  3. Jan 2023
    1. that's a decade off your life

      !- smoking : aging impacts - 10 years off your life

    2. how much does alcohol smoking or marijuana or psychedelics actually affect lifespan

      !- David Sinclair ; aging researcher interview - aging effects of smoking

  4. Oct 2021
    1. Clift, A. K., von Ende, A., Tan, P. S., Sallis, H. M., Lindson, N., Coupland, C. A. C., Munafò, M. R., Aveyard, P., Hippisley-Cox, J., & Hopewell, J. C. (2021). Smoking and COVID-19 outcomes: An observational and Mendelian randomisation study using the UK Biobank cohort. Thorax, thoraxjnl-2021-217080. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2021-217080

  5. Sep 2021
    1. Sam Wang on Twitter: “These are risk levels that you pose to other people. They’re compared with you as—A nonsmoker—A sober driver—A vaccinated person. Unvaccinated? 5x as likely to get sick, for 3x as long. Total risk to others? 15x a vaccinated person Details:https://t.co/ckTWaivK8n https://t.co/PhpLvX2dsm” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved September 19, 2021, from https://twitter.com/SamWangPhD/status/1438361144759132167

  6. May 2021
  7. Apr 2021
    1. Designed identity functions ideologically— it is about idealizing an assumed audi-ence and reformatting that audience in an understandable and digest-ible way

      Boom, Spectacle.

    2. Designed identity is not a term meant to issue blame to game designers, artists, creators, advertisers, or others involved in the video game indus-try.

      Not due to mass media, but an entire culture of consumption and replication. The spectacle.

  8. Feb 2021
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  11. Apr 2020
    1. In China, where the mortality rate for men was almost twice as high as that for women, nearly half of men over 15 smoke, compared with just 2 percent of women.

      Huge difference! Wow!

  12. May 2017
  13. Dec 2015