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The tobacco control field comprises the activity of disparate health, policy and legal research and reform advocacy bodies across the world. These took time to coalesce into a sufficiently organised coalition to advance such measures as the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and the first article of the first edition of the Tobacco Control journal suggested that ...
The tobacco industry comprises those persons and companies who are engaged in the growth, preparation for sale, shipment, advertisement, and distribution of tobacco and tobacco-related products. [1] It is a global industry; tobacco can grow in any warm, moist environment, which means it can be farmed on all continents except Antarctica.
As of 2021, his Racial Hygiene has been cited nearly 2000 times, according to Google Scholar. However, Robert Proctor is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking 2012 history of the tobacco industry, "Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition", [7] winner of the Rachel Carson Prize in 2014. [8]
Gift offered by tobacco industry lobbyists to Dutch politician Kartika Liotard in September 2013. The tobacco industry playbook, tobacco strategy or simply disinformation playbook [1] [2] describes a strategy used by the tobacco industry in the 1950s to protect revenues in the face of mounting evidence of links between tobacco smoke and serious illnesses, primarily cancer. [3]
Price, Jacob M. France and the Chesapeake: A History of the French Tobacco Monopoly, 1674–1791, and of its Relationship to the British and American Tobacco Trades (University of Michigan Press, 1973. 2 vols) online book review; Rainbolt, John C. “The Case of the Poor Planters in Virginia for Inspecting and Burning Tobacco.”
The tobacco plant, first used by the native people of the Americas, [1] later came into use in Europe and in the rest of the world.. Archaeological finds indicate that humans in the Americas began using tobacco as far back as 12,300 years ago, thousands of years earlier than previously documented.
Since the popularisation of e-cigarettes, the tobacco industry protected its interests in a few ways: Developing their own smoking cessation tools, later proven to be ineffective and just as harmful as cigarettes. [57] Manufacturing their own e-cigarettes. Funding studies with the intent of discrediting e-cigarettes. [58] Interfering with the ...
Tobacco in history: The cultures of dependence (Routledge, 2005), world history; online. Goodman, Jordan. Tobacco in history and culture: an encyclopedia (Facts on File, 2005). Harrald, Chris, and Fletcher Watkins. The cigarette book: the history and culture of smoking (Skyhorse Publishing Inc., 2010).