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The History Of Tobacco is a very interesting topic to discuss. Tobacco has been known even since the times of the Native Americans. Native Americans used it to smoke a pipe, a peace pipe. The Native Americans used the smoke or at least thought the smoke was for medical procedures and to use it in special rituals preformed by them.

Question: When and why did tobacco use start?

Essential Question: How has tobacco impacted society overtime?

->https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/tobacco-nicotine-e-cigarettes/what-scope-tobacco-use-its-cost-to-society

- Key Facts: Tobacco Protest
  - Tobacco smoking
  - Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany
  - Smoking ban
  - Tobacco advertising
  - Tobacco cessation clinic
  - World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
- Key Facts: Tobacco Information
  - Diseases caused by cancer
  - 1 gram of Tobacco weight in cigarettes
  - 2 grams of tobacco in a cigar

stats.oecd.org/fileview2.aspx?IDFile=8e59b835-8196-426e-9297-15bc1dab652c

- Tobacco use harms every organ in the human body
- Smoking ages your skin faster
- Smoking stains fingers and teeth
- E-cigarettes do not have tobacco
- Smoking causes cancer, lung diseases, heart disease, and death
- Ex: Every year tobacco companies spend $188.8 million trying to attract teens in Maryland
- (https://smokingstinks.org/fast-facts/)
Types Of Tobacco Smoked Products:
- Cigarettes
- Light and Menthol Cigarettes
- https://tobaccofreelife.org/tobacco/tobacco-products/

 Example: Sigmund Freud- important person(psychoanalysis) who smoked and committed suicide because of tobacco smoking and mouth cancer.

Early history

Tobacco was first discovered by the native people of Mesoamerica and South America and later introduced to Europe and the rest of the world. In addition to its use in spiritual ceremonies, tobacco is also used in ethnobotany for medical treatment of physical conditions.

Tobacco’s impact on early American history.

The cultivation of Tobacco in America led to many changes. During the 1700s tobacco was a very lucrative crop due to its high demand in Europe.

It was also backed by the gold standard which meant that that there was an established conversion rate from tobacco to gold.

JUUL

JUUL, an e-cigarette that probably harms people more than a regular cigarette was introduced into the Americas July 2016. Juul can be mistaken as a USB drive when they are in computers because users are charging them. JUUL is growing in the U.S. as children are buying them because they have flavors so they taste much better. JUUL contains glycerol, propylene glycol, natural oils, extracts and flavor, nicotine and benzoic acid, and tobacco.

https://support.juul.com/home/learn/faqs/juulpod-basics

Photos: (All images shown below)

https://www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/opinion/comment/pharmacists-must-retain-healthy-scepticism-about-e-cigarettes/20201021.article?firstPass=false

Timeline: (All images shown below)

http://mratliff.wonecks.net/2017/11/30/history-of-tobacco-timeline/

1492 Native Americans used tobacco by smoking it in a pipe. They called it a peace pipe. The Native Americans gave tobacco to the European invaders to kill them, because it is deadly, but didn’t know it would take so long for it to happen.

https://nativeamericannetroots.net/diary/746

Mid-16th Century- France Jean Nicot was a French diplomat and scholar. For some time Nicot served Henry and Francis 11, when Francis 11 came to the throne, he sent Nicot as an envoy and an ambassador to Lisbon, Portugal. He met a merchant who told him stories about what ships had brought from foreign shores to increase money control in Flanders. He gave Nicot some weed from North America, which was unknown in Europe. The man told Nicot the values of the qualities of plants. Nicot sent the seeds Catherine De Medici telling all what the merchant said. On his return from Portugal, Medici presented him with one of the plant seeds Nicot gave her. It was tobacco and plant studiers said to name it Nicotiana. https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19100507.2.25&e=——-en–20–1–txt-txIN——–1

1612- First Successful commercial crop was cultivated by John Rolfe. John Rolfe was one of the first early English settlers of North America. He is credited with the first cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in Virginia area. Born May 6, 1585 and died in 1622 in Varina Plantation. https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/john-rolfe
Early 1600’s- In the early 1600’s tobacco was not used to cure anything, but used it to smoke and began to grow. It originally started when a man in 1556 on a ship had smoke coming from his nose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoking
Late 1880’s-Cigarettes then begin to blow up due to machines beginning to make them.
1930- First researches of people smoking and the downfall of smoking. Statistical correlation between cancer and smoking.
1952- Declinage of cigarettes due to articles such as Readers Digest publication.
1971- All broadcasting (Commercials, Radio, Newspapers, etc.) for tobacco and smoking was banned
1990- Smoking was banned for all interstate buses and all airline flights lasting six hours or less.
1995- President (Clinton) announced FDA plants to regulate tobacco especially the sales and advertising for minors.
2012- Publication of draft regulations on smoking in indoor public areas and outdoor public areas.