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…



