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Part One: How Cigarettes Invented Everything

Behind the Bastards

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Smoking a Welcome Cigarette

Tobacco obviously is bad for you, but the harms are still minimal and they're pretty much impossible to see on a wide basis. Very few people are able to smoke regularly throughout the day for one thing. The ones that people do have matches in this period, but they're phosphorus based and they're incredibly dangerous. It's like carrying a flash bang in your pocket. I just want to just want to whip off a rod of phosphorus.

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