The Hidden Truth Behind the Opium Wars explains

Opium Wars: The Hidden Truth Behind the Opium Wars
The Opium Wars were two significant conflicts that occurred during the mid-19th century between China and Western powers
The Opium Wars were two minor wars fought between China and Great Britain (primarily) over the opium trade in China.
Some historians consider the Opium Wars to be the start of the modern era in China.
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first opium war
second opium war and the result and some different topics.
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1:13 Dikötter et al also make two important points about the opium smoking in China. Firstly, they observe that local Chinese opium had a much lower morphine content than Indian opium, so Chinese users of domestic opium were much less likely to become addicted anyway, 1/3

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or at least it would take them far longer and far more opium to do so. Secondly, they note that smoking opium, which was overwhelmingly the preferred method of ingestion in China, produced a considerably weaker narcotic effect than eating it, which was popular in Britain. 2/3

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When smokers used opium, "80-90 per cent of the active compound was lost from fumes which either escaped from the pipe or were exhaled unabsorbed". Frank Dikötter, Lars Peter Laamann, and Xun Zhou, Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China, 57 3/3

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1:13 Dikötter et al. make a similar observation, noting that even two strong British opponents of opium, the medical missionaries Lockhart and Medhurst, "Medhurst considered the use of 3.5 to 4 grams,... 1/4

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as smoked daily by many consumers, to be entirely 'harmless", due to the fact that so much of the opium was consumed in the burning process, rather than being ingested by the user. 2/4

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Even the medical missionaries Lockhart and Medhurst considered the use of 3.5 to 4 grams, as smoked daily by many consumers, to be entirely 'harmless', since the effects of opium were reduced by 90 per cent through burning... 3/4

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...Citation: Frank Dikötter, Lars Peter Laamann, and Xun Zhou, Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 56 4/4

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