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Her lyrics were loose and unpredictable, like Sobule herself, who spent most of her time on the road

To the guy below me, since you own it

But three quarters of people Macintyre surveyed in the campaign were not able to name a single chemical, other than nicotine and tar, which are listed on cigarette packs

This isn't one that'll easily fill a room like the original

Beneath that reflection lies the true architecture: a tobacco leaf cured not for pleasure but for ritual, dry as the scrolls said to have perished at Alexandria, bitter as the hemlock Socrates drank in that final dialogue Plato gave us, calm and unhurried as a man arguing his soul was already elsewhere

(2020, December 7)