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History of tobacco in chronological order: 1800

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The German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), the author of Faust,

was an ardent crusader against smoking. He was among the first to observe and

describe the evils of passive smoking.

JAMA, November 27, 1996, p. 1630

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Goethe, the German poet and naturalist who died in 1832, is best known for writing

Dr. Faust, but among many other interests he was an early tobacco control advocate.

He wrote: "Smoking is a wicked impoliteness, an impertinent, antisocial act. Smokers

poison the air for miles around and suffocate respectable citizens who don't deign to

defend themselves by retaliating in kind. Who could ever enter the room of a smoker

without feeling ill?"

Tobacco Control, Winter 1995, p. 332

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Former president John Quincy Adams wrote in 1845 of how he had, as a young man,

been addicted to tobacco smoking and chewing before he had successfully stopped.

"I have often wished that every individual... afflicted with this artificial passion could

force it upon himself to try but for three months the experiment which I made, sure that

it would turn every acre of tobacco land into a wheat field, and add five years to the

average of human life."

Smoking: The Artificial Passion, p. xvi

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In 1843, the French tobacco monopoly began manufacturing tobacco in paper tubes,

and named them cigarettes.

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