The boys drink and review Sam Adams winter white ale, then smoke their pipes and discuss the origin and history of smoking.
When you sit around the fire, you don’t want the smoke coming your way. It’s annoying. So who came up with the idea of intentionally breathing smoke into your lungs?
People in Africa, the near east, and in China did smoke some cannibis-like weeds, but smoking really took off when Columbus brought tobacco from the new world.
The whole world loved the stuff and tobacco became a key crop in the Americas.
The boys discuss the interesting history of smoking.
Join us for a deep dive into this fascinating topic.
2 Comments
Interesting discussion of smoking and its origins. You contrast smoking with other vices such as consuming alcohol and chocolate, but fail to take into account that smoking presents the danger of secondary effects that those other vices do not. The dangers to bystanders from exposure to secondhand smoke are well documented.
Fair point, although alcohol also has secondary effects, like when people drink and drive.