oxygen and smoking cigarettes Home & Fires: Common & Preventable Elderly Patient Wearing Oxygen Mask

A seminal moment in the history of tobacco regulation came in 1964, when the Surgeon General of the United States published a report linking smoking to lung cancer and heart disease

The old and the new

The sebum increase, the vasoconstriction, the hormonal disruption, the impaired healing all of these happen whether nicotine comes from a cigarette, a vape, or a pouch tucked under your lip

Placed in Black-aimed publications such as Ebony, this ad and many that came to follow would begin to redefine how menthol cigarettes were advertised in the United States

The glimpses of life going on around all these faces have an unsettling, even apocalyptic quality, and the film forces you to consider living beings and their value collectively rather than selectively