However, while a Pirmede is traditionally 6 inches long, it can come in all sorts of shapes and sizes
Packaged in a beautifully designed box, it also makes a thoughtful gift for cigar lovers, dads, husbands, bosses, friends, and collectors
And people are wringing their hands over it across the internet: Why? the adults are asking, why has time turned round, why are our children sucking once again on the demons teat, and the answer, unfortunately, is: Why not? This is a generation that was exposed to a rushing stream of increasingly alarming news about ecological destruction and the failures or disinterest of the adults in charge, the generation at the forefront of some of the worlds most traumatic events, appropriately anxious, overburdened with fears of the future, and perfectly within their rights to pick up a fag and say, Fuck it. We, the elders, have handed doom down to our children like a bad watch and, after a brief foray into extreme health (which, lets face it, was deeply unserious, proudly situating such things as green juice at its centre), these kids have succumbed to vice

It is important to have the debate about how we will protect children and vulnerable people from the harms of secondhand smoke," added Hopkinson