The reason Murad and James banned smoking has little to do with smoke, and everything to do with smoking clubs. You see, when you got together with friends for a smoke, eventually people would start talking. Then, as now, many people's onversations revolved around the still widely held theory that the government sux. However, unlike now, at that time, people were more inclined to act upon it. James' son and both Murad's brothers were killed by their people. If those are the results, you'd want to stop people from talking too.
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Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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