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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 571: Who came up with smoking?
Description: 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...