Chapter 4 History of tobacco in chronological order

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History of tobacco in chronological order: 1700

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Tobacco use by the common people in Britain began in 1702 when the British fleet

captured from Spain at Cadiz several thousand barrels of choice snuff. This vast

quantity was sold at very low prices, and "thus was the general snuff habit born in

Britain."

Licit and Illicit Drugs, p. 213

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By the mid-1700's in England, "a gentleman who did not take (nasal) snuff was a

contradiction in terms...Ladies snuffed as artistically, vigorously, and conspicuously as

men." The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1768 warned that tobacco

"dries and damages the brain."

Journal of the American Dental Association, November 1982, p. 824, and

American Medical News, December 8, 1992

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"Tobacco profits built England's large merchant marine, afforded the extravagant

lifestyles of England's upper class, and financed England's military ventures. Profits

from tobacco sales were a major source of funds for the American Revolution."

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, March 1993, p. 50

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"America triumphed over the arrogance of her conquerors by infecting them with her

own vices; she hastened on the death of her new masters by giving them venereal

disease - and tobacco."

Dr. Fagon, physician to Louis XIV of France (The Practitioner, January 1980, p.

111)

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