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On smoking, tea drinking and "mental activities after dinner"

Feedback explores a key new study looking at tea-drinking smokers and their postprandial sprightliness, while also investigating the prospects of entomologically fortified butter

By Marc Abrahams

12 October 2022

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Josie Ford

Time to retire

How to spur clear-thinking and sophisticated after-dinner conversation? Here is one approach Feedback is considering.

Step 1: Serve tea and cigarettes. (NOTE: Cigars are permissible, if anyone demurs about puffing cigarettes for “health” reasons.)

Step 2: Dramatically recite a brief passage from a new paper called by Zhongbo Chen at Ningbo University in China and colleagues. This is the passage to declaim: “The relationship between smokers who consume tea, engage in mental activities after dinner, or both (drinking tea…

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