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This week's column was written by Sarah Everts

Once inhaled, it is absorbed straight into the bloodstream where it travels through the body and to the brain Nicotine binds itself to specific receptors and triggers the release of dopamine, which boosts attention but could also cause reward-seeking behavior

According to the Stanford research, these ads presented smokers as "young, attractive, vibrant, athletic, happy, and full of vitality

I was concerned about the use of the public airwaves to seduce young people into taking up smoking without any attempt to tell the other side of the story on television and radio

What has changed is the willingness of broader audiences to admit that images once dismissed as regrettable ephemera were part of the architecture of American racial order