The pipe cleaners on the Thyme tin have tiny ceramic star beads attached to their ends
On top of that, "they create hazardous waste chemicals still present in what people throw away," Vandenbroucke said
Quitting smoking prevents much more than sleep problems: Aside from lung cancer, which killed nearly 160,000 Americans in 2015 alone, COPD remains one of the worst outcomes of long-term smoking and can make sleeping a nightmare
Yet, far from being a peculiar condition, long COVID often resembles myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome or ME/CFS: indeed, it is estimated that about half of all long COVID patients meet the criteria for ME/CFS, itself a poorly understood, draining condition
The smoking rate is even higher for people with more frequent or disabling pain