Yes. He called them 'liberty torches'. Allegedly, he explicitly forbade his wife from smoking, however. This was in the 1930s btw.
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Was just reading a chapter on bernays, in Layers of Truth by Drew Weatherhead
Check out some of his statements, he is a sly motherfucker, a real enemy of humanity.
He figured out how one could. Weaponize yourself against yourself. I’m sure having Freud as an uncle helped