How Tea Saved Lives

A fascinating bit of history, human geography and public health research demonstrating a strong argument that the rise in tea drinking (driven by the availability of cheap tea, which of course was driven by colonial exploitation and slavery) in the UK saved lives (in the UK, but at the cost of how many in tea-producing places?).
https://volewica.blogspot.com/2023/12/how-tea-saved-lives.html