BPS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Collagen, Passive Smoking, Benzopyrene

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biopharmaceutical sciences
• Course: BPS 1101
• Professor: William Ogilvie

Document Summary

Columbus discovered tobacco in 1492: natives drank smoke from tobbagos; columbus saw them doing this, so natives made the discovery, but columbus took the credit for it, first shipments to spain from tobago. Jean nicot introduced toabacco to france: first introduced the practice of smoking to france; made smoking popular. Tobacco used to be used to revive drowning victims: thought it could bring someone back to life after drowning; would keep it in their survival kit, these were the thought processes back then. Tobacco smoking in clubs which would take away some of the harshness of the acid from your throat. Florida sues big tobacco company: 1998 definition: first us state to win a settlement; they got billions, they had the official definition of addictive changed, originally it entails dependence, withdrawal, and tolerance (scientific. )t"s sold as a way to stop smoking; it"s about as effective as the other techniques.