Some health effects of nicotine include constricted blood vessels, higher blood pressure, increased risk of stroke and heart attack, increased risk of lung diseases, DNA damage, persistent coughing, hearing loss, vision loss, loss of skin elasticity, and increased risk of miscarriage
The concept of stepping outside for a cigarette doesn't exist in space, so the only place to smoke would be within the space station, causing a significant fire risk
Repetitive heating of the device's core can cause nickel, copper, iron and other metals to slip into the aerosol
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Yet imagination and its close relation, inspiration, are the well springs of our feeling that we are alive not as merely functioning creatures who drive cars, turn on computers and cash paychecks but creatures who have something limitless inside us, something that is attuned to the feeling of love, something inexpressible, something aligned with the silence of sculpture and the sounds that are music, something that we can participate in and be touched by, something that in its quiet, persistent way makes life worth living
