HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Murad Iv, Columbian Exchange, World War I
16 Oct 2018
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Tobacco: corporate obfuscation and public power - october 16. Used in americas for hundreds of years for medicinal, religious and ceremonial purposes. Addictiveness of tobacco is not new - people have always used excessively. Tied to colonialism, europeans colonized americas and brought tobacco back. Virginia"s slave economy fuels global industry can"t understand the rise of tobacco without crediting the slave trade. 1880s: creation of the cigarette rolling machine; allows tobacco to be mass produced. Although addictiveness was known, smoking seen as an indicator of modernity and maturity. Smoking = a performance of masculine rationality and control in the 20th c. Consumption growth in the 20th c, then a rapid decline. In the 1970s 40% of people regularly smoked cigarettes, down to 13% by 2010s. 17th c james i: associated tobacco use with indigenous people (seen as a lesser race at this time of colonialism).
