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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 ...
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
Working conditions in tobacco factories of Richmond, Virginia were very poor in the 1920s and 1930s, with two writers stating that conditions had "changed very little since the days of slavery." [ 4 ] These writers also claimed that Tobacco Workers International Union (TWIU) in Richmond at that time was "entirely ineffective and openly ...
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 ...
Operation Berkshire is the name of a program initiated in 1976 by seven of the world's major tobacco companies aimed at promoting "controversy" over smoking and disease. [ 1 ] Description
United States v. Philip Morris USA, Inc. [1] was a case in which the United States District Court for the District of Columbia held several major tobacco companies liable for violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act [2] by engaging in numerous acts of fraud to further a conspiracy to deceive the American public about nicotine addiction and the health effects ...