2. Table of Contents
Choose a topic that interests you
 Native Roots
 The Tobacco Trade
 Laws and Regulations
 The Making of a Cigarette
 Lady Smokers
 A History of Infirmity
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3. “But An Indian Weed”
Tobacco's 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 grown Home
around the world.

4. Tobacco was an integral part of early
Native American life. Click the name of
a tribe to learn about their tobacco
legends.
Cherokee
Crow
Apsaroke
Apache
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5. World Tobacco
 Top Tobacco Producing Nations
 China
 India
 Brazil
 United States
 Top Tobacco Consuming Nations
 Greece
 Slovinia
 Bulgaria
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 Czech Republic

6. The Tobacco Trade
 1492- Europeans encounter tobacco use
when Columbus’ crew find it in the
Caribbean.
 1527-Spaniards in the New World develop
a taste for smoking. Explorers report
finding tobacco “hard to give up”.
 16th century- tobacco use spread
throughout Europe.
 1612- First commercial cultivation in the
Americas. Home

7. 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 nation’s 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.”

8. 20th Century America
 1901- All but 2 states have anti smoking
laws. Washington, Iowa, Tennessee and
North Dakota outlaw the sale of
cigarettes.
 1927: All smoking bans have been
repealed. Kansas is the last state to drop
its ban on cigarette sales.
 1945: Three largest tobacco companies are
convicted of anti-trust violations.
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9. What Goes Into a Cigarette
As 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 acid
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3-methylpentanoic acid.
For the entire list click here.

10. 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 can't do that on Fifth Avenue,"
the arresting officer says
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11. A History of Infirmity
The Medical Effects of Tobacco use
1761-The first report of adverse health effects among
tobacco users reported by John Hill
1929- First published evidence of a link between lung
cancer and tobacco use.
1951- Richard Doll begins a 50 year study of British
doctors to learn the long term effects of smoking. Read
the 2004 final paper here
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that
tobacco caused 100 million deaths over the course of
the 20th century. Home

12. The harmful effects of smoking come from thousands of
chemical compounds generated by burning and inhaled
• Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (such as
benzpyrene),
• Formaldehyde
• Cadmium
• Nickel
• Arsenic
• Radioactive polonium-210
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13. The Cost of Tobacco Use
In 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

14. Resources
• Peto, R., Lopez , A., Boreham, J., Thun, M., Heath, C., & Doll, R. (1994). Mortality
from smoking worldwide . oxford journals, Retrieved from
http://bmb.oxfordjournals.org/content/52/1/12.long
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• Davey, M. (2010, January). The European Tobacco Trade from the 15th to the 17th
Centuries. 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' observations
on male british doctors. British Medical Journal, doi: 10.1136/bmj.38142.554479.AE
Wikipedia. (25, August 12). Tobacco. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco