Glycolic and Lactic Acids gently exfoliate the top layer of the skin, lifting off dead cells that hold onto excess pigment
"I pick the butts myself and am so, so, so, happy when I find a group of them and I say to them they will never be in the street, 'you will be framed and one day the whole world can see you'." Mr El Assal knows about the "dangerous chemicals" inside each butt from his work and did not want them to hurt the seaside town's seagulls
Out-of-state-purchases were probably not a big factor because only two neighboring states (Vermont and New Hampshire) had substantially lower taxes at the time
Everything described here is read directly off the sign itself and confirmed in the photographs
The scene works on multiple levels: it parodies first-time smoker reactions, satirizes addiction, and plays on the sci-fi trope of aliens encountering mundane human habits1
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