The CSE was acquired as described previously14 (link). Briefly, we burned one cigarette (carbon monoxide 14 mg/cigarette, nicotine 1 mg, tar 13 mg; Tobacco Hunan Industrial, China), collected the smoke in 20 mL of EGM-2 by a vacuum pump, removed particles and bacteria by 0.22 μM pores, then diluted the solution to 1% CSE with EGM-2. In 2 mL of EGM-2, we dissolved 5 g of Dec (Sigma, California, USA), then diluted the solution to 2 μmol/L with EGM-2 and stored it at -80°C until the experiments.
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