Indeed, the extent of one's familiarity with the Benning oeuvre is a crucial element in any approach to Twenty Cigarettes which at 97 minutes forms a rather more accessible and straightforward introduction to Benning than the forbiddingly challenging and structurally lopsided Ruhr (its sixty-minute second half comprising a single static shot of coke-works chimneys going through a fume-belching cycle that indirectly prefigures the rather more small-scale smoke-exhalations captured here.) To "innocent" eyes, Twenty Cigarettes functions as a coherent and intriguing, playful formal exercise
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Each subject was provided with enough cigarettes to smoke for 5 days, on the basis of their self-reported average daily cigarette consumption declared at the start of the study, plus an additional 30% rounded up to the nearest pack
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