In November, more than 2,000 people gathered in Washington Square Park in New York City after a man known online as the cigarette maestro handed out flyers inviting strangers to join him for a five-minute group smoke that was both a communal performance and a real-world mirror of the esthetic revival playing out online
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Since the negative health consequences of cigarette smoking were first brought to the publics attention in the mid-1960s, smoking is estimated to have caused more than 20 million deaths in the United States, including 6.85 million deaths from cancer
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