Maybe I should say "used to bestow," because those benefits have largely disappeared now. I don't think new cigarettes are the same as the ones our grandparents smoked.
The new cigarettes produce a vague haze. Their smoke has no shape or character.
Older cigarettes, on the other hand, produced a clinging anaconda capable of wrapping around the smoker's head.
The smoke was stringy and artistic. The cigarette produced evolving pictures all by itself, even when the smoker wasn't trying.
I'm guessing that filters are the problem. In filtering out some of the tars and nicotine you filter out the giraffes and porpoises the tobacco wants to sculpt.
But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe filters are innocent and it's the tobacco itself that's been tampered with. After all, that industry took a hard hit for producing second hand smoke. Maybe new strains were developed that deliberately produced diffuse smoke.
I don't know.
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