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nauseating after a few wears and also when you're trying to keep an appetite for a meal

This suggests that pupils in Bogot were more influenced by whether their peers thought smoking was socially acceptable (injunctive norms) but were less influenced in terms of whether they thought their peers actually smoked (descriptive norms)

When a craving strikes, remember that protecting your skin and vitality is far more glamorous than any fleeting puff

(I hesitated over that spoiler-tag, but it is shared well into the second half of the book, so I feel like preserving its "reveal" status probably aligns with the book's intentions.) I'd be surprised if we were facing a sort of "all writers, if writing characters, must be writing self-inserts" situation, particularly from Casey McQuiston's usual reading demographic, because that seems like a reaction that's pretty straightforwardly sexistI think we've all run through the understanding that cis men are never, ever accused of this kind of lack of imagination, or this kind of public wish-fulfillment, unless they're very literally New England college professors having affairs with their students writing about New England college professors having affairs with their students

According to the same New York Times interview, hed ask guests to Gilmore-ize their language

The hinged compartment is where the tobacco would be placed for smoking