I had to do an oral presentation today that had to be a minimun 8 minutes.
At first i was going to call it. A History of Tobacco and Advances Toward harm-Reduction.
Well, the history of tobacco is pretty damn extensive and it just all ended jumbled up and not free flowing so i chose another subject that I am very good at, Home-Brewing Beer.
But i was amazed to discover that in the early 1900s cigarettes were almost completely illegal in America.
These are a few facts from the site and they are pretty interesting.
1900: REGULATION: Washington, Iowa, Tennessee and North Dakota have outlawed the sale of cigarettes.
1901: REGULATION: Strong anti-cigarette activity in 43 of the 45 states. "[O]nly Wyoming and Louisiana had paid no attention to the cigarette controversy, while the other forty-three states either already had anti-cigarette laws on the books, were considering new or tougher anti-cigarette laws, or were the scenes of heavy anti- cigarette activity" (Dillow, 1981:10).
1907: REGULATION: WASHINGTON passes a law making it illegal to "manufacture, sell, exchange, barter, dispose of or give away any cigarettes, cigarette paper or cigarette wrappers."
1922: REGULATION: 15 states have banned the sale, manufacture, possession, advertising and/or use of cigarettes.
http://www.tobacco.org/resources/his...story20-1.html
At first i was going to call it. A History of Tobacco and Advances Toward harm-Reduction.
Well, the history of tobacco is pretty damn extensive and it just all ended jumbled up and not free flowing so i chose another subject that I am very good at, Home-Brewing Beer.
But i was amazed to discover that in the early 1900s cigarettes were almost completely illegal in America.
These are a few facts from the site and they are pretty interesting.
1900: REGULATION: Washington, Iowa, Tennessee and North Dakota have outlawed the sale of cigarettes.
1901: REGULATION: Strong anti-cigarette activity in 43 of the 45 states. "[O]nly Wyoming and Louisiana had paid no attention to the cigarette controversy, while the other forty-three states either already had anti-cigarette laws on the books, were considering new or tougher anti-cigarette laws, or were the scenes of heavy anti- cigarette activity" (Dillow, 1981:10).
1907: REGULATION: WASHINGTON passes a law making it illegal to "manufacture, sell, exchange, barter, dispose of or give away any cigarettes, cigarette paper or cigarette wrappers."
1922: REGULATION: 15 states have banned the sale, manufacture, possession, advertising and/or use of cigarettes.
http://www.tobacco.org/resources/his...story20-1.html
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