cartoon cat smoking cigarette of a dark and mysterious a on Craiyon A green cat sits in
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Nicotine might sometimes feel like a quick fix for stress and low mood, but over time it often does the opposite

But this was so blatant, so obvious

Blood serum was frozen at -20c and serum nicotine was quantified using a liquid chromatography-mass spectrometer

But even then of course, as has been noted in this thread, Miyazaki is in no real position to make that criticism, because he back then had the freedom to do it differently

I quit smoking, as they say, cold turkey on my 43 rd birthday, but the event I describe above is proof of how addictive cigarettes were for me
