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Part One: How Cigarettes Invented Everything

Behind the Bastards

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The History of Smoking

There's a lot of work that I imagine goes into producing a nose cigarette from growing the tobacco, drying it out. And you also, you can't smoke just when you when you want to fix because you don't have lighters. You don't have matches, right? Like fire, obviously the people who are living in these places are a lot better at starting fires than most people in the modern world are. But it's still not nearly as easy, right?Like you're not going to just make a fire because you want like a fucking smoke in the like, yeah. Fire to allow get a piece of wood out. Rub it up and eat some wood. That actually goes

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