Episode 175: Smoking and Tobacco

trigger warning: Smoking and Tobacco use.


Soon after Columbus came back from his voyage to the West Indies,
a sailor in Spain lit a pipe. And thus began tobacco's storied
history in Europe. Within 150 years schoolboys at Eton were
beaten if they didn't have their morning tobacco. How did one
weed become such a huge part of society? Let's discuss.


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