Mein Gott! It seems smoking is now forbidden in Germany. Initially I thought the Bavarians would reject such laws in favor of tradition, but no! Even the festival tents will be Rauchenfrei.
Smoking in fest tents will still be allowed in Rheinland-Pfalz, whereas in Bavaria it won’t, although most fest tents can be found at the [...]

Tom Chiarella spent a month working up to a pack-a-day habit:
As the smoke filled my chest, my shoulders lifted so much that my keys actually rolled over in my jacket pocket. It was like my mouth was full of something viscid and metallic. My throat seemed to radiate heat forward and backward in the space [...]

At a news conference in Brooklyn, state Atty. Gen. Andrew M. Cuomo said the arrests served as a message that “organized crime still exits. . . . We like to think it’s a vestige of the past. It’s not. It is as unrelenting as weeds that continue to sprout in the cracks of society.
Seems the [...]

The National Institute for Drug Abuse, citing data found by the University of Mississippi’s Marijuana Potency Project (why did I go to college in Wisconsin?), released information yesterday supporting commonly asserted claims that today’s dope is really good shit.
The average THC levels evident in the hashish and marijuana that is available today is far [...]

Hair slick with his own filth. In need of acrid roborant, assembled fellow patrons be damned. Harnessing the power of the sun for his own insociable vileness.
A hero.
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Smoking is a very bad habit and one I enjoy immensely. In an effort to mitigate the expense ($8-a-pack prices in New York are brutal) I bought a “Premier Supermatic II,” an automatic cigarette making machine. A step down from the top-end “Supermatic,” the primary difference is an open-bottom design (the Supermatic has an all-rubber [...]

Cigar maker CAO is showing off these new LED-backlit humidors, complete with an on-board humidity and temperature readout. The best part is that the humidors are free—with the purchase of 20 CAO Vision cigars, started at $240 for the “Catalyst” up to $320 for the “Prana.”
More images of the humidor, which looks a bit like [...]

Take, for instance, this distubring factoid about erectile function:
1. Smoking can shorten your penis by as much as a centimeter. Erections are all about good bloodflow, and lighting up calcifies blood vessels, stifling erectile circulation. So even if you don’t care all that much about your lungs or dying young, spare the li’l guy.
That stresses [...]