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"Raleigh's First Pipe in England", included in Frederick William Fairholt's Tobacco, its history and associations. John Hawkins was the first to bring tobacco seeds to England. William Harrison 's English Chronology mentions tobacco smoking in the country as of 1573, [ 8 ] before Sir Walter Raleigh brought the first "Virginia" tobacco to Europe ...
There is a reference to tobacco in a Persian poem dating from before 1536, but because of the lack of any corroborating sources, the authenticity of the source has been questioned. The next reliable eyewitness account of tobacco smoking is by a Spanish envoy in 1617, but by this time the practice was already deeply engrained in Persian society.
The tobacco control field comprises the activity of disparate health, policy and legal research and reform advocacy bodies across the world. These took time to coalesce into a sufficiently organised coalition to advance such measures as the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and the first article of the first edition of the Tobacco Control journal suggested that ...
The bright-tobacco industry, 1860-1929 (1948) online; Wagner, Susan. Cigarette Country: Tobacco in American History and Politics (Praeger, 1971). online; Wailoo, Keith. Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette (2021) excerpt; Winkler, John K. Tobacco tycoon, the story of James Buchanan Duke ...
The history of tobacco litigation in the United States can be divided into three waves: (1) from 1954 to 1973, (2) from 1983 to 1992, and (3) from 1994 until today. [23] During the first two waves, tobacco companies had enormous success, winning all but one of their cases, with the only case they lost, Cipollone v. Liggett, being reversed. [23 ...
Archaeologists say tobacco consumption leaves a metabolic record that can be studied for centuries Archaeologists discover ‘significant’ permanent side-effect of smoking Skip to main content
Pennock, Pamela E. Advertising sin and sickness: The politics of alcohol and tobacco marketing, 1950-1990 (Northern Illinois University Press, 2007). Speaker, Susan L. " 'The struggle of mankind against its deadliest foe': themes of counter-subversion in anti-narcotic campaigns, 1920-1940." Journal of Social History 34.3 (2001): 591-610. extract
The justices turned away an appeal by RJ Reynolds and other tobacco companies of a lower court's ruling that found that a set of health warnings required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...