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Part One: How Cigarettes Invented Everything

Behind the Bastards

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The History of Tobacco

Tobacco was being smoked by the natives of Hispaniola, which is modern day Haiti in the Dominican Republic via a weird two pronged nosepipe. That's where Columbus runs into it at first, right? Yeah. So they would they would smoke it, but they would like inhale it through this pipe. Like the nose snorkel kind of situation. You do get pretty fucked up when you smoke raw nicotinor rustica through directly into your mucus membrane.

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