He has since stopped smoking and blames his father for giving cigarettes at the age of 2.
Many museums, like us at the University Museum, seek for their institutions to be spaces of connection, where objects, people, and ideas come together, where we can recognize our biases, and where collections can reach beyond the confines of storage and exhibition walls
By analyzing retinal pigmented epithelial (RPE) cells, researchers found that smoke exposure physically alters chromatin structure, effectively locking away the genes needed for cellular repair
These include the negative effects on biodiversity caused by the deforestation instigated to clear land for tobacco growing, the extensive use of pesticides and other chemicals that can affect drinking water sources, and the soil degradation that occurs due to specific tobacco-growing processes (namely the topping and de-suckering of tobacco plants that is done to increase nicotine content)
The device does not produce smoke or ash and the vapour has far less smell than cigarette smoke and is not a source of second-hand smoke
