"If I mention , I am sure most people in this room understandably think of cocaine — but freebasing was invented by the . You add and to the tobacco leaf mixture — the smoke that's produced is more basic, more alkaline. And, as a consequence, nicotine is delivered across the {[w|Pulmonary alveolus|alveolar membrane}} even more rapidly than would otherwise be the case. And we know that the rapidity — with which a drug is delivered and sating a need for a drug — is an important determinant of its propensity to induce and maintain addiction, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And we could take the entire hour talking about the elements of cigarette design. … It is important that we understand that we have the most addictive substance in our community — whose use is facilitated by a perversely engineered drug delivery device."
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