HSCI 180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Smokeless Tobacco, Chewing Tobacco, Sandy Lake First Nation
3 May 2016
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A legal product used by a significant proportion of adults. The leading cause of preventable death among canadians. Long before christopher columbus voyaged across the atlantic, the aboriginal peoples were using tobacco. Used by native americans, who presented tobacco leaves as a gift to columbus in 1492. Tobacco was adopted by the spanish, either from an arawak term they encountered in the caribbean or from the arabic word tabbaq which was used for medicinal herbs. Methods of use: users took (used snuff) or drank (smoked) tobacco. Beginning with a few trials by physicians, recognition of the potential of tobacco grew during the middle 1500s. Tobacco was used by native americans before it was introduced in europe. In 1535, jacques cartier met montreal natives using tobacco. Plant genus (nicotiana) and active ingredient named for him. 16th and 17th centuries: viewed as having many positive medical uses but as having a negative reproductive effect.
