- 1. Table of ContentsChoose a topic that interests you Native
Roots The Tobacco Trade Laws and Regulations The Making of a
Cigarette Lady Smokers A History of InfirmityHome
2. But An Indian Weed Tobaccos but an Indian weed, Grows green
in the morn, cut down at eve; It shows our decay, We are but clay;
Think of this when you smoke tobacco! Click the Speaker To Hear
This Song Tobacco is a member of the nightshade family, genus
Nicotiana There are more than 70 members of the tobacco family
grownHome around the world. 3. Tobacco was an integral part of
earlyNative American life. Click the name ofa tribe to learn about
their tobaccolegends. Cherokee Crow ApsarokeApache Home 4. World
Tobacco Top Tobacco Producing Nations China India Brazil United
States Top Tobacco Consuming Nations Greece Slovinia BulgariaHome
Czech Republic 5. The Tobacco Trade 1492- Europeans encounter
tobacco usewhen Columbus crew find it in theCaribbean.
1527-Spaniards in the New World developa taste for smoking.
Explorers reportfinding tobacco hard to give up. 16th century-
tobacco use spreadthroughout Europe. 1612- First commercial
cultivation in theAmericas. Home 6. Laws and Regulations 1604 King
James I of England taxes tobacco 1608 King Louis XIV makes sale and
distribution a state run monopoly. 1633 Turkey imposes the death
penalty for smoking. 1683 Massachusetts passes the nations first
no- smoking law. 1898 Tennessee Supreme Court upholds a total ban
on cigarettes, ruling they are not legitimate articles of commerce,
being wholly noxious and deleterious to health. Their use is Home
always harmful. 7. 20th Century America 1901- All but 2 states have
anti smokinglaws. Washington, Iowa, Tennessee andNorth Dakota
outlaw the sale ofcigarettes. 1927: All smoking bans have
beenrepealed. Kansas is the last state to dropits ban on cigarette
sales. 1945: Three largest tobacco companies areconvicted of
anti-trust violations.Home 8. What Goes Into a CigaretteAs result
of litigation a list of 599 cigarette ingredients was released in
1994.A few of the ingredients other than tobacco are listed here:
High fructose corn syrup, Sugar, Licorice, Menthol, Artificial
chocolate /natural chocolate flavor Valerian root extract, Molasses
and vanilla extracts, Cedarwood oil. Glycerol, Propylene glycol,
Isovaleric acid, Hexanoic acidHome 3-methylpentanoic acid. For the
entire list click here. 9. Lady Smokers The Baroness de Dudevant,
the first woman to smoke in public. 1904: New York: A judge sends a
woman to jail for 30 days for smoking in front of her children.
Another woman is arrested for smoking in an automobile. "You cant
do that on Fifth Avenue," the arresting officer says Home 10. A
History of InfirmityThe Medical Effects of Tobacco use1761-The
first report of adverse health effects amongtobacco users reported
by John Hill1929- First published evidence of a link between
lungcancer and tobacco use.1951- Richard Doll begins a 50 year
study of Britishdoctors to learn the long term effects of smoking.
Readthe 2004 final paper hereThe World Health Organization (WHO)
estimates thattobacco caused 100 million deaths over the course
ofthe 20th century. Home 11. The harmful effects of smoking come
from thousands ofchemical compounds generated by burning and
inhaled Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (such as benzpyrene),
Formaldehyde Cadmium Nickel Arsenic Radioactive polonium-210Home
12. The Cost of Tobacco UseIn the United States: 400,000 people die
of smoking related causes annually. 8.6 million people currently
suffer from smoking related illnesses. Americans spend $96 million
annually in smoking related health care costs. $97 billion in
productivity is lost to smoking related illnesses annually. Home
13. Resources Peto, R., Lopez , A., Boreham, J., Thun, M., Heath,
C., & Doll, R. (1994). Mortalityfrom smoking worldwide . oxford
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fromhttp://bmb.oxfordjournals.org/content/52/1/12.long Davey, M.
(2010, January). The European Tobacco Trade from the 15th to the
17thCenturies. Retrieved from
https://www.lib.umn.edu/bell/tradeproducts/tobacc
http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/song-midis/Tobaccos_But_an_Indian_Weed.htm
Doll, R., & Peto, R. (2004). Mortality in relation to smoking:
50 years observationson male british doctors. British Medical
Journal, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38142.554479.AEWikipedia. (25, August
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