SmokeReality

By Keyvan Davani

Teenagers are a profitable market. This is why any means are justified for the tobacco industry to enslave YOU as early as possible to the lifelong consumption of cigarettes. Just a glance behind the scenes of the tobacco corporations shows the shocking facts. This knowledge gives you the feeling of power to free yourself out of the matrix of manipulation, dependency, and illusion - you decide about your life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Mar 29, 2011
• ISBN: 9781447555223

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1 Sex, Drugs, and Tatanka?

The first indications on the consumption of tobacco reach up to 15,000 years ago. The original inhabitants of South America cultivated a tobacco plant Nicotiana Rustica or Farmer’s Tobacco, which were intended for consumption by healers and shamans.

This plant possessed, besides a particularly high nicotine portion, other alkaloid substances such as Harmala, which can cause hallucinations and intoxications.

Today, Farmer’s tobacco cannot be used for making tobacco products because of its effects. Besides Nicotiana Rustica, the original inhabitants consumed a number of other tobacco species, as well as other drugs such as mescaline, extracted from plants. This drug is extracted from special cactus species and can provoke hallucinations and visions…

What were drugs used for in those times? — The reasons were exclusively of a religious and spiritual nature: back in those times, through the artificially produced perception-changing states of things, the healers and shamans thought these drugs enabled them to get in touch more easily with their gods and spiritual beings. In this way they tried to heal the sick and to find answers to their difficult spiritual questions. Drug consumption in those times was therefore a more conscious act than today and was connected with a specific spiritual objective.

Not all original inhabitants were allowed to consume drugs: Women, for example, were not allowed the enjoyment of tobacco, in whatever delivery form. Young boys were not allowed to consume tobacco or other drugs until they reached a marriageable age.

In exceptional cases, if there was tobacco consumed by younger people, then it was solely within the scope of religious ceremonies and spiritual rites. Basically, the consumption of drugs was a privilege of men, and here again — as already mentioned – especially of healers and shamans.

But how did the tobacco find its way to Europe? Maybe you have heard of the famous European sailors such as Christopher Columbus or Jean Nicot, who brought tobacco over here to Europe many centuries ago — where it was consumed in different forms in the beginning.

In the year 1880, James Albert Bonsack — the son of a tobacco plantation owner – was able to build the prototype of a machine for the automatic production of cigarettes. At age 21, he obtained a patent for this machine, which had the capability to produce 200 cigarettes per minute. James Buck Duke, the later legendary king of the American tobacco business, learned to appreciate pretty fast the advantages of the Bonsack Machine and the mass production of cigarettes was born…

Around the year 1900, the average cigarette consumption per head and per year was 49. By 1930, it had risen to 1,300 and finally in the 1950’s, it was a goodly 3,000 units per head and per year.

Worldwide, there are around 1.4 billion nicotine addicts, in contrast to that the number of consumers of illegal drugs such as heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and so on is almost modest at 200 million.

From the time of mass production and mass marketing of cigarettes (and we are talking about some trillions of sold units up to now!), not only has the number of smokers risen multiple times, also the starting age has been continuously falling. For example, the first cigarette today is smoked more often at age 11 in many European countries, such as Austria and Germany — thus in a development stage, in which every drug addiction can develop exceptionally fast and be sustainable.

Do you think that this development is coincidental or credited to the fact that teenagers mature earlier nowadays? — Then the chapter Smoking: Adults Only Please holds interesting new findings. Thus, the tobacco industry has developed sophisticated and elaborated marketing strategies, to target and lure kids and teenagers, the regular costumers of tomorrow, and to drive them into dependence…as early as possible.

2 High-Tech Shit

One takes a rectangular piece of filter paper, around 7x4 centimetres, and disperses onto it a weak tablespoon of dried, finely chopped tobacco leaves. Following that, one rolls the paper around the tobacco filling and the cigarette is fin … "Wait, Stop!! Demoniac laughing from the background – Hahaha, You are really quite a back number, Brother! How is this to become a money-spinner, hm? How ya’d wanna one get addicted to after this one, haa? … Oh. What now, you add some more stuff into that? You’re a real smart ass, what? Yeah sure, so the masses are greedy for it, you need a little more than that! Well, at least 599 additives, I’d say …"

A bad joke? – No, this is fact. Up to now, within the internal documents of the tobacco industry, two different lists have appeared; on each are listed 600 (!) different additives for cigarettes.

But let’s slow down. Let’s take ourselves to a time, when I knew as much as you probably know today: the tobacco mixture contains nicotine, condensate (=tar), and carbon monoxide, basically what is listed on the pack.

Yet in the course of my investigation, when I studied the internal documents of the tobacco industry, I stumbled upon words such as gustatory (=the sense of taste) and olfactory (=the sense of smell), I read sensory (=the perception of senses) and more such gibberish language and I was totally confused in the beginning.

But the more I dug into the internal documents, the