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Tobacco and Tobacco Products
Native to North and South America, tobacco dates back to around 6,000 BC. Native Americans used tobacco in many different ways, including in religious practices and for medicinals. Tobacco is in the same plant family as the potato, pepper, and the poisonous nightshade. In this topic, questions about tobacco and tobacco products are asked and answered.
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Why should smoking not be banned?
There is much debate about this. Whilst those intending to continue smoking argue that banning smoking does infringe on their right to smoke. The issue now is whether advertisement should be banned. The tobacco companies claim that cigarette advertisement just influence smokers to change brands but do not encourage non smokers to smoke. Anti- smoking lobbyists argue that if cigarette advertisements do not encourage non smokers to smoke, then why are tobacco companies spending so much each year on advertisements. For further information, you can visit www.quitsmokingforlife-remainfree.blogspot.com
Consider: The USA attempted to ban alcohol at the beginning of the 20Th century. All this achieved was to drive the alcohol business underground and into the hands of criminals (the Mafia). Cocaine, heroin, cannabis, (to mention a few) are currently banned in most countries, but their use continues. Current opinion is that cocaine use in the UK is at its highest since records began, and yet is has been "banned" for decades. (since about 1909?)
What is needed is to make people not want to smoke!
But there are many informed and educated smokers who simply put enjoy tobacco products.
How long does it take for the cravings to stop once you quit using chewing tobacco?
That will depend on the person, how long they have been chewing, though if someone starts to get a craving I suggest gum or practcing self will and self disapline
How do you use tobacco free snuff?
You stick it in your front lip or in the sides of your mouth and pretty much suck the flavor out of it.
Snuff users in the third world often rub the snuff into the gums to give a quick fix, but overuse can damage gums and cause them to recede, eventually leading to tooth loss. If you want to use snuff, it's probably not a good idea to rub it into your gums.
Answer (1): There are three types of hookah tobacco. First is the unwashed tobacco which has 0.5% nicotine, second is the washed tobacco which has 0.05% and there's a herbal hookah tobacco which contains no nicotine.
Answer (2): A hookah is not a substance, but an Asian waterpipe in which the smoke from, say, tobacco is drawn through water to cool and purify it. Although the cooling is effective, the filtration is not, and many of the harmful constituents of smoke remain to be inhaled.
Since hookah-smoking sessions are social event lasting for thirty minutes or more, the hookah smoker will inhale much more nicotine than if he had smoked a single cigarette.
Does smoking 3 cigarettes cause cancer?
No, that's not probable, but the tendency is gradually to raise that number. The best option is to quit forever even if you are smoking only six cigarettes a day.
How much money does tobacco companies make?
A lot. It changes each year, but it's going up. I know they make at least a billion.
How did tobacco spread around the world?
Tobacco has a long history in the Americas. The Mayan Indians of Mexico carved drawings in stone showing tobacco use. These drawings date back to somewhere between 600 to 900 A.D. Tobacco was grown by American Indians before the Europeans came from England, Spain, France, and Italy to North America. Native Americans smoked tobacco through a pipe for special religious and medical purposes. They did not smoke every day.
Tobacco was the first crop grown for money in North America. In 1612 the settlers of the first American colony in Jamestown, Virginia grew tobacco as a cash crop. It was their main source of money. Other cash crops were corn, cotton, wheat, sugar, and soya beans. Tobacco helped pay for the American Revolution against England. Also, the first President of the U.S. grew tobacco.
By the 1800's, many people had begun using small amounts of tobacco. Some chewed it. Others smoked it occasionally in a pipe, or they hand-rolled a cigarette or cigar. On the average, people smoked about 40 cigarettes a year. The first commercial cigarettes were made in 1865 by Washington Duke on his 300-acre farm in Raleigh, North Carolina. His hand-rolled cigarettes were sold to soldiers at the end of the Civil War.
It was not until James Bonsack invented the cigarette-making machine in 1881 that cigarette smoking became widespread. Bonsack's cigarette machine could make 120,000 cigarettes a day. He went into business with Washington Duke's son, James "Buck" Duke. They built a factory and made 10 million cigarettes their first year and about one billion cigarettes five years later. The first brand of cigarettes were packaged in a box with baseball cards and were called Duke of Durham. Buck Duke and his father started the first tobacco company in the U.S. They named it the American Tobacco Company.
Credit: An 1892 Duke of Durham box of machine-rolled cigarettes Tobacco Biology & Politics
The American Tobacco Company was the largest and most powerful tobacco company until the early 1900's. Several companies were making cigarettes by the early 1900's. In 1902 Philip Morris company came out with its Marlboro brand.
They were selling their cigarettes mainly to men. Everything changed during World War I (1914-18) and World War II (1939-45). Soldiers overseas were given free cigarettes every day. At home production increased and cigarettes were being marketed to women too. More than any other war, World War II brought more independence for women. Many of them went to work and started smoking for the first time while their husbands were away.
By 1944 cigarette production was up to 300 billion a year. Service men received about 75% of all cigarettes produced. The wars were good for the tobacco industry. Since WW II, there have been six giant cigarette companies in the U.S. They are Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, American Brands, Lorillard, Brown & Williamson, and Liggett & Myers (now called the Brooke Group). They make millions of dollars selling cigarettes in the U.S. and all over the world.
In 1964 the Surgeon General of the U.S. (the chief doctor for the country) wrote a report about the dangers of cigarette smoking. He said that the nicotine and tar in cigarettes cause lung cancer. In 1965 the Congress of the U.S. passed the Cigarette Labelling and Advertising Act. It said that every cigarette pack must have a warning label on its side stating "Cigarettes may be hazardous to your health."
By the 1980's, the tobacco companies had come out with new brands of cigarettes with lower amounts of tar and nicotine and improved filters to keep their customers buying and to help reduce their fears. The early 1980's were called the "tar wars" because tobacco companies competed aggressively to make over 100 low tar and "ultra" low tar cigarettes. Each company made and sold many different brands of cigarettes.
In 1984 Congress passed another law called the Comprehensive Smoking Education Act. It said that the cigarette companies every three months had to change the warning labels on cigarette packs. It created four different labels for the companies to rotate.
Public Law 98-474, "Comprehensive Smoking Education Act, 1984"
Credit: Smoking Tobacco & Health, Centers for Disease Control
Since the 1980's, federal, state, local governments, and private companies have begun taking actions to restrict cigarette smoking in public places. The warning labels were the first step. Tobacco companies cannot advertise cigarettes on television or radio. It is against a law that was passed by Congress in 1971. Many cities across the U.S. do not allow smoking in public buildings and restaurants. Since 1990, airlines have not allowed smoking on airplane flights in the U.S. that are six hours or less. State taxes on cigarettes have increased.
As it becomes more difficult for tobacco companies to sell their products in the U.S., they are looking outside. U.S. tobacco companies are now growing tobacco in Africa, South America (Brazil and Paraguay), India, Pakistan, the Phillipines, Greece, Thailand, and the Dominican Republic. Fifty percent (50%) of the sales of U.S. tobacco companies go to Asian countries, such as Thailand, South Korea, Malaysia, the Phillipines, and Taiwan.
What are facts about the tobacco industry?
American Brands; RJR Nabisco, Inc; B.A.T. Industries; Loews Corporation; Liggett Group; and Philip Morris. So there are 6.
How much money is a pack of cigarettes?
it depends on the brand but usually 1 packet costs $5.00 or more including plus tax
It also depends on where you live. A packet of cigarettes will cost different amounts in Germany, Australia, Iceland or South Korea
Will you always get a buzz from smoking a cigar?
Yes, some people can become addicted after just one try.
How much tobacco does Wisconsin grow?
Wisconsin does not grow very much tobacco. Tobacco is only in Rock, Dane, Jefferson and Columbia counties. They grow about 1,000 acres.
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What is the smoke from the end of a tobacco product?
side stream smoke-smoke coming from the burning tip of a cigarette Mainstream smoke-smoke that comes from the smokers lungs CHEMICALS
How old must you be to buy cigarettes in Arizona?
That depends on the country, and possibly the state, you live in. In most countries it's the late teens. Many supermarkets in the UK won't sell cigarettes to anyone apperantly under 25 witrhout proof of age, owing to the difficulty in judging ages.
What are tobacco considered tobacco products?
Tobacco is the entire plant that is grown, smoked, or chewed. It has a number of harmful irritants and wiill cause disease when used especially when smoked. Nicotine is one chemical of tobacco that is addictive and is the reason we seek it out. When you use only nicotine (separate from tobacco ) there are minimal health consequences-only addiction.
How tobacco is harmful for health?
As well as containing pesticides. What makes tobacco so harmful is that the nicotine has been made extremely addictive by the cigarette companies use of ammonia to freebase the nicotine for easier absorbtion. Then whatever else the cigarette has will slowly kill you.
If you wanted to intravenously inject nicotine, you would live longer. On the other hand pharmacologically there is little difference between cocaine and nicotine. except nicotine feels dirtier.
How much does 305 menthol cigarllios cost in Florida?
how much are a pack or carton of marlboro and newports? i am going on vacation in about 2 days from Indiana and wanted to know if i should go ahead and but them here of wait till i get down there. im going to the treasure island st pete area. they are about 5 a pack for marlboro and 6 for newports here.
Does chewing tobacco slow your metabolism?
Chewing gum does not boost metabolism. I guess unless it is a caffeinated gum. Chewing gum can help curb hunger.
Is there tobacco you can sniff?
yes off of dip sometimes but havnt tried regualar tobbaco...least not yet
Why is nicotine considered a drug?
Smokers believe smoking create feelings of, among others, sharpness and relaxation. They believe smoking enhances alertness and consentration, and thus, smokers take deep or quick puffs to either relax or stimulate their nerves.
However, even though most smokers will tell you that smoking is "relaxing", nicotine constricts the blood vessels and raises heart rate and blood pressure.
