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.
People of all positions in society have been warning of the dangers of smoking since we discovered it. At the time of King James' appeal tot he public, smoking popularity had been growing for only about 10 years. It wasn't even fully understood what smoking did, but it was understood even back then, that those who smoked were sicker than those who didn't. Please go check out 'Work of Chimney Sweeps", dating to 1602, where it describes the illnesses of smokers as identical to those of chimney sweeps.
> Start by reading: In Defense of Smokers. The Benefits of Natural Tobacco
I found it, thanks for the reference. [Link here for anyone else.](https://archive.org/details/colby-lauren-a.-in-defense-of-smokers.-the-benefits-of-natural-tobacco/)
So the guy, IMO, does have good arguments when describing the propagandization of anti-smoking material, but his bits fall apart when he tries to argue that there isn't evidence for damage to health.
On page 26, he claims "Kephart insists, however, that it is normally impossible to tell, from autopsy, whether the deceased was or was not a smoker. " However when we go to look for 'Kephart's' actual words, we find nothing. No books, nothing on the internet, no reference in any court proceeding, and not even any evidence the man exists. The original source for any 'Wray Kephart' \*is\* this book. According to Whitepages, there are NO 'Wray Kephart's in the entire continent of America.
**You have to check your sources.** Please remember that, before the pendulum swung back in the anti-smoking direction, originally all propaganda was pro-smoking (e.g. 'blowing smoke' comes from the so-called 'smoke enema', a wannabe-panacea now known to be baseless pro-tobacco propaganda). This author has written a propaganda piece, not an expose.
I'm going to read it cover-to-cover for good measure, but that doesn't look good.