Psychology 2020A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Chewing Tobacco, Boogie 2Nite, Nicotiana Tabacum
22 Jul 2018
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From the 1920s until the mid-1960s, lighting up and smoking a cigarette was an unquestioned sign of sophistication, encouraged by the intense marketing efforts of tobacco manufactures. Ashtrays and cigarette lighters were standard on automobile dashboards: there was little or no public recognition that harm would come of smoking a possibility that was concealed for decades by the tobacco industry. Tobacco products are legally sanctioned commodities with an economic significance, both to. Canada and to the world: banning tobacco products would lead us into a prohibition era comparable to or perhaps exceeding in social upheaval the one experienced with respect to alcohol in the last century. Christopher columbus received from the inhabitants a welcoming gift of large, green, sweet- smelling tobacco leaves. In 1559, the year historians mark as the year tobacco was officially introduced to europe, the. French ambassador to portugal, jean nicot, presented some tobacco plants acquired in the new.
