HSCI 180 Chapter Notes -Rothmans, Benson & Hedges, Smokeless Tobacco, Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor

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1492 used by native americans, who presented tobacco leaves as a gift to columbus. 1497 first printed report of tobacco smoking took = used snuff // drank = smoked tobacco. Tobacco was adopted by the spanish, either from an arawak term they encountered in the caribbean or from the. Arabic word tabbaq which was used for medicinal herbs. 1529 in europe, first prescribed for treating headaches, cold, sores on head. 1535 jacques cartier met montreal natives using tobacco. 1565 french physician jean nicot - cure migraines for queen with tobacco: plant genus (nicotiana) and active ingredient named for him. 16th and 17th c: negative effects on pregnant women. 1890s: nicotine dropped from the u. s. pharmacopoeia. Two main species grown today, out of + 60 species of nicotiana: nicotiana tobacum: large-leaf species, indigenous to south america, widely cultivated, nicotiana rustica: small-leaf species from the west indies and eastern north america, less desirable. 1610 1612 tobacco colony in virginia by john rolfe.

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