HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tom Frieden, Columbian Exchange, Social Capital
25 Feb 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Thomas frieden: tobacco is simple in a leuge 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. Although we haven"t banned it, we haven"t reduced rates of cigarette use. What is relationships between tobacco dependence and personal id. Use in americas for hundreds of years as medicinal and ceremonial. Plant has been around for a long time. From 1500"s - priest talked about the indigenous population has fondness for herb. He talked about how all these people do is smoke this. Didn"t use the word addiction but inferred that something about this plant is irresistible. Not just consequences but driven people to find new places to sell, trade and buy. This plant from america got brought to europe and other parts of world. Industry built upon slavery - most people understand it.
