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The invention of the Cigarette-rolling machine makes nicotine accessible to anyone. Smoking becomes common, normal, and a social activity. It becomes an "indulgence". -
Cigarettes are everywhere, dominating daily lives and American culture. Doctors say they're healthy, soldiers depend on them, and advertisements promise tranquility. Nicotine becomes dependent in daily life. -
After discoveries highlighting the negatives of cigarettes, governments issue warnings, and doctors go back on their claims, but it's too late. Nicotine's addictive nature has already rooted itself in America's daily life. Smoking becomes a guilty pleasure in comparison to complete, mindless euphoria. -
Cigarettes are banned globally by the U.N. Tobacco companies scramble to come up with a new product, promoting "wellness". New products arise selling nicotine in new ways, like patches, pods, and vapes. -
Brand new, AI - Powered vapes are sent to the market, called "emotio - vapes". These new products use AI to create unique dosages of nicotine depending on the desired human emotion - happiness, joy, and complete euphoria. Furthermore, nicotine is completely rebranded, becoming known as a "performance enhancer". Human progress (as a whole) exponentiates. -
A new invention reaches the market - an insertable chip that releases nicotine into the bloodstream of its wearer. The invention is marketed this time as a "mental tranquility necessity" and becomes common for workers in high-stress fields. -
Governments all over the world create laws, mandating daily doses of nicotine in order to maintain social stability. Refusing this treatment is not only against national law, but it's seen as "crazy, unstable behavior". -
Due to massive demand, a nicotine shortage is created. The shortage throws society into chaos - there are riots, people collapse, and the world governments declare this shortage a national emergency. -
The scientists of 2150 solve the nicotine shortage crisis by genetically modifying human cells to produce nicotine when the body detects feelings of stress or anxiety. Now, unlike before, the body is in complete control of the intake, causing the disappearance of numerous natural human emotions from society. -
Every human being is now born with nicotine-integrated genes due to genetic manipulation. Emotions are in equilibrium, and progress is at an all-time high, but all at the price of natural human experience.