The “Take the pipe, my British friend” option makes the English obsessed with opium, which I happen to control the world supply of after doing a reverse Great Britain. I’m using my trade port outside of London to flood their market with the good shit. The British Century of Humiliation will occur right before my Soviet-sponsored revolution. This is what I like to call a pro gamer move.
“Keep the opium coming” boosts the productivity of my opium plantations for like 5 years. It doesn’t spark a cultural obsession with opium which is what gives them all the negative consequences of consumption. With “take the pipe” they get a lesser version of the Qing destabilisation and their leaders are more likely to get a big opium addiction debuff.
it’s really sad how the weak constitution of the Anglo predisposes them to indolence and addiction