Filmmaker David Lynch says his days of directing are essentially over because he cannot leave home, thanks to an emphysema diagnosis caused by a lifetime of smoking.

"I've gotten emphysema from smoking for so long, and so I'm homebound whether I like it or not. — Read the rest

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In 1996, Stefan Sigmond smoked 800 cigarettes in less than six minutes, breaking the previous world record of 750. Sigmond completed this difficult and dangerous task by attaching all the cigarettes to a circular inhalation device, where he could breathe in the smoke from all the burning cigarettes through a single tube. — Read the rest

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Inflation stressing you out? Making you wish you had just a touch of nicotine in your system? Unfortunately, that'll cost a lot. While prices economywide have risen 3.1 percent in the last year, cigarette prices have jumped 8 percent. On top of federal and state taxes that often make up half the price of a pack, tobacco companies tend to raise their prices faster than inflation to make up for declining sales volume. These and the rest of the numbers in the Reason Sindex use data from November 2023.

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