Results for keyword: tobacco history timeline

1. Text link: History of Tobacco in the World — Tobacco Timeline

Domain: tobaccofreelife.org

Link: https://tobaccofreelife.org/tobacco/tobacco-history/

Description: History of Tobacco Timeline. Here is a brief glimpse into tobacco history and events. 6,000 BC – Native Americans first start cultivating the tobacco plant. Circa 1 BC – Indigenous American tribes start smoking tobacco in religious ceremonies and for medicinal purposes. 1492 – Christopher Columbus first encounters dried tobacco leaves. They were given to him as a gift by the American Indians.

2. Text link: History of tobacco - Wikipedia

Domain: en.wikipedia.org

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_tobacco

Description: William Harrison's English Chronology mentions tobacco smoking in the country as of 1573, before Sir Walter Raleigh brought the first "Virginia" tobacco to Europe from the Roanoke Colony, referring to it as tobah as early as 1578.

3. Text link: Tobacco History Timeline – Breazy

Domain: breazy.com

Link: https://breazy.com/blogs/education/tobacco-history-timeline

Description: 1875: The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company is founded to produce chewing tobacco, which was the most popular form of tobacco during the time. 1881: American James Bonsack invents a cigarette-making machine. 1890: The American Tobacco Company forms as a result of a number of tobacco manufacturers merging together.

4. Text link: The Timeline: Tobacco | The Independent | The Independent

Domain: www.independent.co.uk

Link: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/timeline-tobacco-2181071.html

Description: As early as 5000BC, tobacco was being smoked in the Americas. Mayan civilisation smoked and chewed tobacco from around 1000BC, mixing in herbs for medical use.

5. Text link: HISTORY OF TOBACCO - WHO

Domain: www.afro.who.int

Link: https://www.afro.who.int/sites/default/files/2017-09/Chapter%2032.%20The%20history%20of%20tobacco.pdf

Description: HISTORY OF TOBACCO 6000 BCE - 2009 CE users were warned they risked nasal cancers. 1769 New Zealand Captain James Cook arrived smoking a pipe, and was promptly doused in case he was a demon. 1771 France French official was condemned to be hanged for admitting foreign tobacco into the country. 1788 Australia Tobacco arrived with

6. Text link: British American Tobacco - Our history – a timeline

Domain: www.bat.com

Link: https://www.bat.com/history

Description: The American Tobacco Company divests its shares in the joint venture and we are listed on the London Stock Exchange for the first time. 1915 Sales total 25 billion cigarettes per year, as the additional demand from the armed forces for tobacco stretches our manufacturing capacity to the limit

7. Text link: History - The Tobacco Portal

Domain: tobacco.publichealth.gsu.edu

Link: https://tobacco.publichealth.gsu.edu/resources/history/

Description: The Frank Statement was a historic ad run by the major American tobacco companies in 1954 that marked the beginning of a long legacy of misinformation about the health effects of smoking. Australian Tobacco History Timeline. The Tobacco Control Supersite has compiled a comprehensive history of tobacco in Australia as one of its many resources.

8. Text link: Timelines - Full Chronology | Inside The Tobacco Deal ...

Domain: www.pbs.org

Link: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/timelines/fullindex.html

Description: The tobacco companies and state attorneys general announce a landmark $368.5 billion settlement agreement. July 1997 Congress includes a $50 billion tobacco-tax credit in a new tax bill.