< so how did smoking ever take on? Wasn’t snuff around before the cigarettes?
Smoking started to be popular because of the plague, Chewing tobacco was the popular method of tobacco use and spitting was stupidly associated with the spread of the plague. They even had school children smoking I could not find the article. the only thing I could readily find was the ban on spitting edit; correction it may had just been stated as disease. but it all comes down to creating the cigarette and modern machines could turn out 200 a second this means big money to the stock holders