Alcohol is toxic, lets build an entire industry on selling it.
Coffee has stimulating pesticide, lets build an entire industry on selling it.
Tobacco has opioid pesticide, lets build an entire industry on selling it.
Cacao is bitter, which our body tells us is toxic to us, slap some sugar on it and lets build an entire industry on selling it.
The Fugu fish is one of the most poisonous sea creatures, let's make it into a delicacy.
...humans are the Florida Man of species.
"research shows that people who drink a lot of coffee have a lower risk of developing nonalcoholic fatty liver disease."
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/is-coffee-good-for-your-liver
"Of 110 tobacco factories in the *Pale of Settlement in 1897, 83 were owned by Jews, and over 80% of the workers were Jewish. This participation continued into the 20th century, and the Jewish tobacco workers were active in the ranks of socialism."
@Justicar
The leaders of the industry, the “gangster class,” were predominantly Jewish; in “Jews and Booze: Becoming American in the Age of Prohibition,” author Marni Davis says that 50% were Jewish, 25% Italian and around 10% were Irish. Many American Jews were drawn to the illegal alcohol business
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-nosher/the-history-of-jewish-bootleggers/