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Adam Ferrier, a communications and marketing guru from advertising agency Naked Communications tries to explain this unlikely phenomenon on Unleashed: When we taste something we are not recording what it tastes like, we are creating the taste making it up, depending on the information we have to hand

The tobacco is blended to give the cigarettes a fairly consistent taste, as specific tobacco crops have different flavors depending on growing conditions

At a molecular level, smoking affects key signaling pathways such as nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-kB) and mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) and induces epigenetic modifications like DNA methylation and histone modification [22]