HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Murad Iv, Columbian Exchange, Social Capital
2 Jan 2019
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Frieden: tobacco is, quite simply, in a league of its own in terms of the sheer numbers and varieties of ways it kills and maims people . Leading cause of preventable death, kills 20x more canadians than all illegal drugs combined. The most successful control efforts of any legal substance. Use in americas for hundreds of years as medicinal and ceremonial. Addictive properties reported from late 16thc jesuit: the fondness they have for this herb is beyond all belief. Addictiveness is not new he was speaking about intensity of craving. Tied to colonialism, columbian exchange; virginia"s slave economy fuels global industry. One of the most popular consumed substances. Columbian exchange: when europeans colonized americas, took and brought back tobacco. Important because allowed tobacco to be mass-produced turned into something industrial = more effort into branding it (ex. Although addictiveness known, smoking as indicator of modernity and maturing.
