Jordan Harbinger: [00:28:34] I think it was Sam Harris who said, He had all these great benefits and then he had one time where he was like, this outweighs all of the benefits that I've achieved. I'm never doing this again. Michael Pollan: [00:28:44] Yeah
This is a fragrance I really must have
The idea that this research sounds counterintuitive, it makes sense to me, he tells me as we sit in his office at Johns Hopkins Behavioural Pharmacology Research Unit in Baltimore
"It's the friends I would've never expected," says Cai: "high-functioning, wonderful, successful people." "As a kid," explains Cai, now 33, "I was taught 'the burnouts do that, and if you do you're not going to be a good part of society.'" Emily Atkin, a friend of mine and author of the climate crisis newsletter Heated, gauges the shift in public sentiment around smoking based on people's reactions to her electric blue tank top emblazoned with the plea "PLS DO NOT GIVE ME A CIGARETTE NO MATTER WHAT I SAY." "It is by far my most attention-grabbing shirt," she told me