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(Bottom left) Famous American cigarette brand Ateshian used the
following slogan in its advertisements: 'The cigarret smoked by His
Imperial Majesty Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of Turkey'.

(Left) A cigarette
advertisement
from the Abdul
Hamid II era
(Bottom) Ciga-
rette paper from
Ottoman times

The British brought [tobacco] to the Ottoman Empire around 1900 [1600 in

Gregorian calendar] and sold it with the claim that it could heal some ail-
ments. Some pleasure-seeker friends became addicts. However, in time, even
those people who weren't pleasure-seekers started to consume it. Even many

great scholars and statesmen got addicted to smoking… Coffee houses were
thick with smoke because all the wasted people and womanizers were there

chain-smoking. Even on the streets and marketplaces, they were smoking. 129

As one can see, it was the British deep state that first introduced tobac-

co and spread its use in the Ottoman Empire. The members of the deep state
made the people addicted to this poison with lies that it would help cure ail-
ments. When the rule of Abdul Hamid II started, another step was made that

would help the British deep state. Abdul Hamid II transferred the tobacco rev-

enues to the 'Régie Company', owned by French and British for 30 years,

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