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Part One: How Cigarettes Invented Everything

Behind the Bastards

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Cigarettes

In the 14th or Louis XIV gives the first French company Iminopoly over tobacco production, and they start manufacturing cigarettes. Cigarettes were generally because of this, the least favored method of tobacco consumption. The only person today who could smoke on the level of a smoker back then would be maybe Rudy Giuliani. He's an inhaler. He takes it all in baby.

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