Cigarettes are stored in the trunk on the elephants back
Ian Fearon, the paper's lead author and renowned, U.K.-based nicotine scientist, concluded, "BIDI Stick ENDS delivered nicotine to users comparably to their usual brand cigarette and also elicited similar subjective effects such as satisfaction and relief." Fearon went further to note the study's implications: "Thus, the BIDI Stick ENDS may be a satisfying alternative to cigarettes among current adult smokers, including those that find it difficult to quit or who are not interested in quitting smoking." Comparing published research on other ENDS and tobacco-containing "heat-not-burn" products, study authors said the BIDI Stick may have a greater ability to satisfy adult smokers looking for alternative, non-combustible sources of nicotine
Fast-forward to this week, when the Biden Administration announced its desire to ban menthol cigarettes in the United States, with the intention to help significantly reduce youth initiation, increase the chances of smoking cessation among current smokers, and address health disparities experienced by communities of color, low-income populations, and LGBTQ+ individuals, all of whom are far more likely to use these tobacco products. The proposal is not new, and in fact has been kicked around Washington DC for years, provoking much harsh reaction from a wide coterie of groups, including the Council on Racial Equality (CORE), the National Black Chamber of Commerce, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and numerous police organizations all of whom see this move as potentially creating more harm than good within African-American communities
In "The Dentist", another female detective who is detailed to catch a dentist in the act of groping anesthetized female patients has a similar reaction when she is not groped
