Thats the writers ultimate job
While nicotine in the tobacco plant is thought to be used as a defense mechanism against insects and pathogens, people have, for millennia, recognized the stimulating effects of inhaling the nicotine-containing smoke produced when dried tobacco leaves are burned
hung above smoky fires, and the sweeter, yet still strong 'cigar type'
They also found that after 10 years of nondaily smoking, they had a similar a risk for all-cause mortality compared with never smokers to lifelong nondaily smokers (HR = 1.73
David cut the mighty stalks and hung the plants, inverted, to dry in the smokehouse over the winter months
The comparison becomes more explicit and deadly when it is realized that Thompson's true predecessors, as mentioned before, were the sad, doomed geniuses of sixties rock music