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Nina Marta Teaching A Beginner How To Inhale Smoking (Windows)

“Do you feel the air in your cheeks?” Nina asks. “Yes,” the student mumbles. “Good. Now open your mouth and let it out. You did not inhale that air. Your lungs are clean.”

Because smoking, like any art, is just applied physics. And Nina Marta has written the instruction manual. nina marta teaching a beginner how to inhale smoking

Leo grins. “I did it. That didn’t hurt.” “Do you feel the air in your cheeks

“Yes,” he whispers.


nina marta teaching a beginner how to inhale smoking
Ameera Salman

Ameera Salman uses she/they pronouns, and worked for The Eastern Echo from Fall 2022 to Fall 2025. They started as Editor-in-Chief of Cellar Roots, then moved to Editor-in-Chief of The Eastern Echo in 2024. For the Fall 2025 semester they are served as News Editor. Salman graduated in Fall 2025, majoring in journalism with a minor in urban studies.