PS268 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Boogie 2Nite, Nicotine, Antibody
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Lesson 5 tobacco (chapter 10: 1/5 canadians smoke cigarettes, cigarette smoke is poisonous. In canada, tobacco comes from tillsonburg, on: given to europeans from indigenous peoples. Initially took or drank tobacco: tobacco , referred to a 2-pronged tube used to take snuff, used in tobacos, mexico, also called nicosiana . Isolated active ingredient - nicotine : cure-all vs harms brain & liver (not used by women and children, 3 major tobacco companies in canada: Imperial tobacco canada limited: rothmans, benson, & hedges incorporated, jti-macdonald corporation. Chewing tobacco: 1980 peak production in canada, popular in 20th century, major league baseball players use it, push to reduce/eliminate this. Cigars: chewing -> cigars -> cigarettes, 1920: peak in cigar use. The quest for safer cigarettes: nicotine = addiction, filter collects tar, safer cigarette = filter & less nicotine increased sales in 80s, switching from high nic. to low nic. made no difference in health consequences.
