Smoking Frees the Mind?

A well-known Fox network television personality made the following statement:  “…  nicotine 'frees your mind' whereas marijuana controls the masses.” Perhaps in a parallel universe this is true; perhaps in the same universe that George Santos is an Olympic athlete. After years of smoking, it is likely that your “mind” will be free of its body, literally. A more appropriate quote should be, "if you smoke, befriend an undertaker." Smoking is implicated in destroying the vasa vasorum. I wonder if ultimately vaping will be shown to render identical results. In which of the following structures will you identify the vasa vasorum?

Postscript: Please be aware this is not an endorsement for marijuana. But nothing good can come from smoking cigarettes.  The practice was started years before its harmful effects were truly recognized. Investigators reported that for women who smoked in the 1960s, the risk of dying from lung cancer was 2.7 times higher than that of never-smokers. In 2000-2010 cohorts, the risk was 25.7 times higher than that of never-smokers. 

Vasa vasorum are found at which indicated location?