BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Passive Smoking, Lethal Dose, Chimney Sweep
22 Mar 2016
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Kills more people than alcohol, cafeine, pesicides, etc. 30% of cancer deaths can be associated with tobacco. Tobacco kills about 420,000 people/year in north america. Tobacco was discovered by columbus in 1492: once on the new land, he noiced the naives drinking smoke from tobbagos. Tobacco was once used to revive drowning vicims. Tobacco was reserved usually for clubs as a social element: smoked though a pipe. The tobacco was harsh then and could acid burn your throat, so the long pipes allowed it to cool before entering your throat, and was safer". Water pipe was popular in eastern countries: as smoke passed through the water, it took out some of the acids. Finely ground tobacco into powder people would snort. Chewing tobacco: popular with poor people as smoking was expensive at the ime. Late 1700"s was the irst depicion/reporing of cigarete smoking.
