Read this before you light that smoke stick again.
The Psychology of Smoking
Christopher Columbus was the Italian explorer who discovered smoking around 2000 years ago.
Although tobacco, the first and most popular smoking ingredient had been growing on the ground since around 8000 years ago, men didn't consider it for smoking until 2000 years ago.
When smoking was first discovered, it became a widespread trend all over Europe because it produced a kind of sensation that many couldn't resist.
It made them get in the mood as they used to put it. In fact, tobacco wraps were sent to soldiers on the battlefield so they could smoke and feel energized for the battle ahead. It was that popular.
The trend continued like that for almost a century and it spread across different regions of the world.
But humans soon discovered that it had dangerous side effects on their body after many medical discoveries so the trend was greatly subdued.
This greatly affected the companies producing the tobacco wraps so they had to devise another means of making money.
That was when they started producing cigarettes in the 1800s. They prescribed it as something less harmful as they had reduced the concentration of tobacco in it.
Due to the fact that those companies had almost broken down because they had stopped producing tobaccos, they marketed the cigarettes heavily and humans fell for it.
Then the smoking trend became rampant again. Those who had stopped smoking earlier easily jumped on the new cigarettes and they managed to influence many other people to join the trend too.
And then later on, it was discovered that cigarettes only increased the time that tobacco wraps would have taken to cause damage on the human body, it didn't stop those dangerous side effects.
So what happened next? I’ll tell you in next week Tuesday’s newsletter. I’d leave you to pick whatever lesson you wish to pick from this brief history today.
Tomorrow's newsletter shall surely be another banger. Don't miss it please.