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This 10 page paper provides a history of the tobacco industry, noting there is evidence of the use of tobacco several centuries B.C. The discussion includes the importance of tobacco to economy of certain colonies/states as well as the importance of this industry to the economy and revenue to governments. In the last part of the paper, the writer argues against banning smoking and suggests the government has exploited the anti-smoking movement to its own gain while those who smoke have lost their civil rights. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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that American Indians were using tobacco in both medicinal and religious practices in 1 B.C. (Randall, 1999). It was used almost as a cure-all for dressing wounds and relieving pain
(Randall, 1999). It was believed that chewing tobacco could reduce the pain of a toothache (Randall, 1999). The first archeological artifacts providing evidence of early use of tobacco were
the pictures on Guatemalan pottery dating back to 600-1000 A.D. (ASH, 2006). In October 1492, Columbus was offered dried tobacco leaves as a gift from the Native Americans he met
(Randall, 1999). It wasnt long before sailors brought tobacco back to Europe and its popularity as a crop quickly spread (Randall, 1999). Two other explorers contributed to the rise of
growing and using tobacco - Rodrigo de Jerez and Luis de Torres, Spanish explorers, smoked the tobacco and took that habit back to Spain (ASH, 2006). Early cultivation of tobacco
is recorded in Santo Domingo in 1531 and in Portugal in 1548 (ASH, 2006). There are reports of a doctor in Seville promoting the benefits of tobacco to all Spanish
doctors in 1571 (ASH, 2006). The following year, Sir Francis Drake returned home and introduced pipe smoking in Britain (ASH, 2006). The use of tobacco continued to be used for
any number of physical ailments, including halitosis and lockjaw throughout Europe (ASH, 2006; Randall, 1999). Sir Frances Drake introduced smoking to Sir Walter Raleigh in 1585 (ASH, 2006). Tobacco became
so popular in the 1600s, it was used as money (Randall, 1999). It was also in the early 1600s that Sir Frances Bacon reported it was very difficult to stop
the habit of smoking (ASH, 2006; Randall, 1999). The first ban on smoking came in 1632 when it became illegal to smoke in public in Massachusetts (Randall, 1999). The ban
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