When Rachel Harrison was 16 years old, she took a drag from her first cigarette. She remembers loving it right away—the taste, the warmth, and especially the lightheaded rush that smoking gave her. Like a bad character in an after-school special, she chain-smoked an entire pack that first time while hanging out with other smokers from the popular crowd.
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