We hope to raise awareness and reduce the amount of cigarette litter seen throughout our watershed
Nicotine use is linked to damage of the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for impulse control, emotions and decision making and one of the last brain areas to mature, and its use during adolescence increases the risk of developing psychiatric disorders and cognitive impairment later in life (7)
The big companies know that to some extent the golden period of smuggling is gone, observes Belgium-based sociologist Luk Joossens, a World Health Organization expert on tobacco smuggling and co-author of the 1995 study that first alerted the world that billions of exported cigarettes had gotten lost in transit
It would be unwise, he said, for pregnant women and people with heart problems or diabetes
It was a skill, and I was good at it." Women weren't invited into the club