Contrast with Colonial Production

🍃📜 Long before cigarettes, advertising, and warning labels, tobacco began as a sacred plant used in ritual, medicine, and ceremony. Over centuries, empires, traders, doctors, and corporations transformed it into one of the most powerful — and destructive — global industries in history. Its story touches exploration, colonialism, addiction, public health, and the slow realization that not every popular habit is harmless.

Tonight, close your eyes and drift through the long, complicated history of tobacco — from ancient smoke to modern consequences — told calmly, carefully, and without judgment.

👉 Boring History For Sleep | Plants, power, and the quiet weight of history. 💤