WI tobacco never became popular

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The more I think about it, the more I think that a world without much tobacco would be fascinating indeed. Apart from the vast political ramifications, cultural ramifications will be interesting to watch, especially as Western culture comes to see other recreational drug use like Indian pipe-smoking or Arab/African khat chewing.
Khat's kinda out of the question though. It isn't stable enough to be a mass market product until you're extremely advanced. Indeed, it was probably impossible to do so until this century. Coca or Kola nut might be another option. Hell, Kratom might be on the menu.

A timeline on this could go in a number of directions, but it would be most interesting to see one which focuses on the Native Americans; without the south initially cultivated for tobacco, Native Americans will retain a lot of their strength there which they lost quite quickly IOTL (as opposed to New England, where Native Americans remained quite powerful for quite a while).
Agreed. This would be interesting to see.
 
You have a different problem there, which Protestant Church? It is highly unlikely to have ALL of them to agree with the policy.

I actually see at times more consensus in the main Protestant churches (at least) on some subjects paradoxaly. Maybe a more diffuse social consensus is better than authority from above and abode for some things.
 
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