I posted "jews are the whole reason that we smoke in the first place" on NuVoat, and was asked for a cite. I replied that, (not so) curiously, no direct citation exists, but I worked this out through research. I welcome you to examine it for any errors.
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The British East India Trading Company is what built the British empire, but it was largely isolated from the King. It kept it's own armies, and had agreements where it's jurisdiction was (generally) everything outside of Britain, while the King had jurisdiction inside Britain. The British East Indian Trading Company did not allow jews to hold positions inside of it.
The primary competition to the British EITC was jews, who ran their own trading outfits based out of (what we now know as) the Netherlands, which was originally part of Spain. Literally, the Netherlands exists because Jews who didn't want to leave Spain when expelled ran to what is now the Netherlands, caused [the 80 years war](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty_Years%27_War), then took 'the Dutch Republic', as it was called, for their own.
The entire economy of the Dutch Republic was trading. While Amsterdam was originally the main hub for Sugar importing to Europe (through the Dutch EITC, a direct competitor to the British EITC which was literally simply bought by jews), by 1650, sugar took a backseat to tobacco, which became the jewish Dutch Republic's greatest import, and **Europe's first Tobacco processing center was created in Amsterdam.** In fact, [Tobacco was so lucrative for the jews that the money they made off of Tobacco literally caused the Dutch 'Golden Age'.](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-72368-6_8) As a fun fact, [it should be no surprise that the same Dutch EITC literally brought the first jews to America in 1654,](https://jewishcurrents.org/june-3-the-dutch-east-india-company) where they would establish New Amsterdam and larger New Netherlands, now known as the insufferable New York / New Jersey area. This is, of course, the same area and same jews behind rum distillation, if you have been following my posts on the jews behind alcohol consumption.
And what did the jews do with a bunch of tobacco and no consumers? Manufacture consumers, of course. As with American women in the 1910s, smoking was considered disgustingly unattractive, and jews spent the next 50 years pushing tobacco on the rest of Europe. Reminder that their primary opposition was King James VI and I, who, try as he might, couldn't stop the jews from pushing tobacco in his territories (please see his rather humorous ['Counterblaste to Tobacco').](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Counterblaste_to_Tobacco)
In general, any time something addictive is introduced to modern society, jews were behind it. Jews literally require their wares to be addictive, because the addiction makes a country's citizens actually want to disobey their leaders enough to consume. Otherwise, people decide it isn't worth the risk.
Jews introduced us to tea, and later coffee (when they realized that coffee was more addictive, which we now know is due to higher caffeine content), tobacco, hard spirits (originally, Rum), weed, and, though I don't know about us, they introduced China to Opium, which caused a massive destabilization and ended the thousands of years of their dynasty system.
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Google anything I've typed. I checked every sentence to ensure they are worded in a way that they are easily citable.
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The British East India Trading Company is what built the British empire, but it was largely isolated from the King. It kept it's own armies, and had agreements where it's jurisdiction was (generally) everything outside of Britain, while the King had jurisdiction inside Britain. The British East Indian Trading Company did not allow jews to hold positions inside of it.
The primary competition to the British EITC was jews, who ran their own trading outfits based out of (what we now know as) the Netherlands, which was originally part of Spain. Literally, the Netherlands exists because Jews who didn't want to leave Spain when expelled ran to what is now the Netherlands, caused [the 80 years war](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighty_Years%27_War), then took 'the Dutch Republic', as it was called, for their own.
The entire economy of the Dutch Republic was trading. While Amsterdam was originally the main hub for Sugar importing to Europe (through the Dutch EITC, a direct competitor to the British EITC which was literally simply bought by jews), by 1650, sugar took a backseat to tobacco, which became the jewish Dutch Republic's greatest import, and **Europe's first Tobacco processing center was created in Amsterdam.** In fact, [Tobacco was so lucrative for the jews that the money they made off of Tobacco literally caused the Dutch 'Golden Age'.](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-72368-6_8) As a fun fact, [it should be no surprise that the same Dutch EITC literally brought the first jews to America in 1654,](https://jewishcurrents.org/june-3-the-dutch-east-india-company) where they would establish New Amsterdam and larger New Netherlands, now known as the insufferable New York / New Jersey area. This is, of course, the same area and same jews behind rum distillation, if you have been following my posts on the jews behind alcohol consumption.
And what did the jews do with a bunch of tobacco and no consumers? Manufacture consumers, of course. As with American women in the 1910s, smoking was considered disgustingly unattractive, and jews spent the next 50 years pushing tobacco on the rest of Europe. Reminder that their primary opposition was King James VI and I, who, try as he might, couldn't stop the jews from pushing tobacco in his territories (please see his rather humorous ['Counterblaste to Tobacco').](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Counterblaste_to_Tobacco)
In general, any time something addictive is introduced to modern society, jews were behind it. Jews literally require their wares to be addictive, because the addiction makes a country's citizens actually want to disobey their leaders enough to consume. Otherwise, people decide it isn't worth the risk.
Jews introduced us to tea, and later coffee (when they realized that coffee was more addictive, which we now know is due to higher caffeine content), tobacco, hard spirits (originally, Rum), weed, and, though I don't know about us, they introduced China to Opium, which caused a massive destabilization and ended the thousands of years of their dynasty system.
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Google anything I've typed. I checked every sentence to ensure they are worded in a way that they are easily citable.
> Tobacco isn't a bad thing. Cigarettes are, Tobacco isn't.
The Cigarette [as we know it didn't exist until 1847, when the first patent was awarded in Mexico,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette), and the first American patent was in 1880. By contrast, people had been warning against tobacco's health damage since at least the early 1600s. Aside from the King's Counterblaste, check out 'Work of Chimney Sweepers', which basically noticed in 1602 that smokers have the same ailments chimney sweeps have.
> Tobacco wasn't introduced by the English in the slightest.
I agree with this statement.
> It was popularized by the Spanish and sold mainly by the Spanish first.
I left this out for clarity, but tobacco did exist in Europe, and was even grown there, but locally grown tobacco apparently tasted intolerably badly and imported tobacco was expensive, and so it was unpopular. Until the strains cultivated in what is now Virginia (there is an argument to be made that Virginia was literally founded to grow Tobacco), (effectively) all consumed tobacco came from Trinidad etc, which made it very expensive.
We don't see the massive expansion in popularity until the Dutch golden era. **EDIT:** The original reason for this post was a cite on jews \*popularizing\* tobacco in Europe, and thus this post is mistitled. I also can't change the title. Sorry.
> Even if we subscribe to the (to me, insane) theory that the conquistadors were jews
Not needed, I assure you.
> As Spain had just recently gotten rid of the jews.
This didn't happen. They were supposed to be expelled, but a large fraction of the Marranos never left, which is why the Inquisition was created in the first place. Marranos who got caught by the Inquisition seceded from Spain and made the Netherlands. It takes more than just telling them they must leave.