SOC 3382 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: United States Pharmacopeia, Nicotiana Rustica, Chewing Tobacco

• School: University of Houston
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3382
• Professor: Graves

Document Summary

A legal product that is used by a significant proportion of adults. Responsible for higher rates of adverse health consequences and death than any other drug. Tobacco was cultivated and used by native americans for centuries: native americans presented tobacco leaves as a gift to columbus in 1492. The word tabaco was adopted by the spanish: the arabic word tabbaq meaning medicinal herbs was already in use. 1500s: recognition of the medical potential grew. Nicotine, an active ingredient, and nicotiana, the plant genus, were named after french physician jean nicot. 16th and 17th centuries: tobacco was viewed as having many positive medical uses but as having a negative effect on reproduction. 1890s: nicotine was dropped from the united states pharmacopoeia. Snuff: 18th century: snuff use became widespread as smoking decreased, snuff replaced the pipe in england, american use declined after the revolutionary war.