“The Real Cost”
According to “The Action of Smoking and Health,” every six seconds someone loses their life as a result of a tobacco related disease. It’s hard to realize how damaging cigarette smoking’s effect can be until you experience it first hand. It is almost certain that every one knows someone who is currently a smoker or was a smoker at some point in their life. For years smoking was the seen as the “cool” thing to do, it was how to “fit in.” There was no real emphasis placed on the dangers of this particular habit, and as a result, it became a world wide trend. In the past, technology and medicine were not nearly advanced enough to be able to determine just how harmful tobacco usage is. However, as we have made medical and
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It all boils down to its social history. In practically every era since it was discovered, tobacco has been a huge social phenomenon.
When tobacco was first brought to England it became a huge hit and soon there after, it spread to other parts of the world. At first it was only sold as a luxury to affluent city folk but eventually the manufacturing was revolutionized by the Bonsack machine which made it affordable for the general public. Ten years later, the American Tobacco Company was founded by James Buchanan Duke, who promoted cigarettes by using aggressive marketing and advertising techniques. The success of the cigarette was not only attributed to the witty business strategies utilized but also to the fact that young men in urban areas were smoking them and creating a trend. When World War 1 came about, smoking became an even bigger phenomenon. In fact, the military and governments organized a constant supply of cigarettes for the troops. At this point in time cigarette companies like Camel were bringing in tons of revenue. With all this new money, these companies were available to create bigger and better advertisements which resulted in more product consumers. In the early 1900’s this disposition became even more popular. In some parts of the world, up to 80% of the male populations were regular smokers. Smoking became an acceptable part of culture in almost all aspects of life; people did
Tobacco is a green seventeen leave plant that grows natively throughout North and South America. It’s related the potato, peppers, and the poisonous nightshade. One ounce of tobacco contains about 300,000 seeds! The Americans started to grow Tobacco during 6,000 B.C. In the early 1 B.C the American Indians started using tobacco in religious and medical practices. People us to believe that tobacco cured-all of their problems. It was used as dress wounds, pain killer, and chewing tobacco solved toothache. In October 15, 1492 the American Indians gave Christopher Columbus dried tobacco as a welcome gift. After Christopher Columbus left, he brought back tobacco to Europe; which then grew all over Europe. The reason tobacco was grown so much was because it was believed to have healing properties; that could cure anything from ripe breath to cancer. In 1571 a Spanish doctor named Nicolas Monardes wrote a book on medicinal plants and that tobacco could cure 36 health problems. In 1588 Thomas Harriet thought smoking a dose a day was a good idea. In the 1600’s tobacco was “as good as gold,” it was mostly used as money. During that time some people realized the dangerous effects of smoking. In 1610 Sir Francis Bacon tried to quit, but said it was really hard. Meanwhile in 1632, 12 years after the Mayflower had arrived at Plymouth Rock, smoking became illegal in the state of Massachusetts! In 1760, a New York company named Pierre Lorillard produced tobacco, cigars, and
Tobacco, Smokes, Cancer Sticks, Chew, Dip, whatever you want to call it, has been poisoning the innards of individuals since the days of the prehistoric Mayas of Mexico at around 600 to 900 A.D. This tobacco craze would resume in the society of the American Indians and later to the European settlers. In the early seventeenth century, tobacco was the chief cash crop of America’s first colony, Jamestown Virginia. This crop would continue to flourish in throughout history. By the early 1900’s, The American Tobacco Company was the leading and most influential tobacco corporation. The game completely changed at the time of the two World Wars however. Soldiers began receiving free cigarettes and the industry began targeting women as potential costumers as they were gaining new rights and liberties in society at this time. In 1964, the cigarette empire began to see its decline when the Surgeon General of the U.S. wrote a report about the dangers of cigarette smoking. After this statement by “America’s doctor”, legislation did everything in their power to detour people form purchasing these harmful products. They have gone as far as to make tobacco companies label “caution” on their products. Tobacco companies have recently been having trouble selling their
Smoking has a very progressive history, which is important in understanding the social aspect of the behavior. In the early 1500s, Christopher Columbus brought the tobacco leaves of the America’s to Europe. From there, the world found a great love for tobacco, making it a crop of great commodity and thus crating more demand for slave labor at the time. After the Civil War, smoking continued to be a popular commodity, even through World War II where a General reported cigarette rations being equally important to his soldiers as bullets (U.S. Tobacco History, 2017).
Tobacco has been around since the 17th century and was the first crop grown for money in North America. In 1612, the settlers of the first American colony in Jamestown, Virginia grew tobacco as a cash crop. Tobacco helped pay for the American Revolution against England. By the 1800’s, many people had begun using tobacco in different ways. Some chewed it, others smoked it in a fancy pipe, and some even hand rolled a cigarette or cigar. Most people only smoked about 40 cigarettes a year. It wasn’t until 1865 that the first commercial cigarettes were made by Washington Duke on his 300 acre farm in Raleigh, North Carolina. He made hand rolled cigarettes and sold them to the soldiers at the end of the Civil war. In 1881 cigarette smoking became wide spread due to James Bonsack’s invention of the cigarette making machine. Bonsack’s machine could make 120,000 cigarettes a day. Because of this machine, he created a business with Washington dukes son, James Duke. They built a factory and made about 10 million cigarettes the first year and around one billion cigarettes only five years later. They packed the cigarettes in a box with baseball cards and called them Duke of Durham. They were known as the first brand of cigarettes. Buck Duke and his dad started the first tobacco company in the U.S. and names it the American Tobacco Company. The American Tobacco Company became the largest and most powerful company until the early 1900’s. By then, several companies had started making
It was not until James Bonsack concocted the cigarette-production machine in 1881 that cigarette smoking got to be broad. Bonsack 's cigarette machine could make 120,000 cigarettes a day. He started a new business with Washington Duke 's child, James "Buck" Duke. They constructed a
According to statistics in the 20th century the world over 100 million people died of tobacco-related diseases. However, the proportion of smokers has not decreased, or even increased due to the limited understanding of the harmful effects of tobacco smoke, knowledge is limited.
Tobacco has a long history in the Americas and date back to somewhere between 600 to 900 A.D. Native American Indians smoked tobacco through a pipe only for religious and medical purposes. Following, European’s immigration to North America, tobacco was rapidly spread around the globe (Jacobs, 1997) due to addictive properties of the chemical, Nicotine present in plant Nicotina tobacum (Boffetta et al., 2008). Only the mode of delivery has changed. In the eighteenth century, snuff was prominent; the nineteenth century was the age of the cigar; the twentieth century saw the rise of the manufactured cigarette, and with a greatly increased number of smokers. At the dawn of the twenty first century approximately one third of adults in the world,
I watched the documentary, The True Cost which explores the communities around the fast fashion industry and follow a few workers to share their stories. In the film there is similar pollution in the community because of the factories similar to what you mention happens outside the Zara factory with the river changing colors based on the colors they are using in the factory. I am glad you brought up donating your clothes and how even though you think you are doing something good by donating them they do not always end up going to someone who needs them but sometimes in landfills which harm the environment since they do not decompose. About twice a year I will go through my closet and make a clothing donation, its upsetting to
Now, just like alcohol people also have an issue as to why tobacco is still legal. Tobacco consumption and its appeal have really changed from the 1920s to today’s society. Tobacco was a global crop by the 1620 and by the 1700s it became very popular in Europe. Everybody was smoking tobacco and there was much money to be made because of it. It also helped that nicotine was highly addictive. During World War I the cigarette was invented. Cigarettes would be used to calm nerves of decrease appetite. By the 1950s Americans were buying a total of 8.4 million pounds of tobacco a year. America was the leading country in cigarette production. Then when it reached Hollywood and how glamorous smoking looked everyone wanted to do it as well. Classic stars such as Bette Davis, Paul Henreid and Audrey Hepburn glamorized cigarette smoking making it a big impact to the common people that idolized them to also smoke because their favorite celebrities
Tobacco in cigarette form was at a peak, and the emergence of tobacco in the chew form began to popularize among ‘cowboys’ and ‘diggers’ for the California Gold Rush in the west (tobacco). Early on people who consumed tobacco began to notice its addictive properties, but the demand for the product continued to grow. The 1900’s brought about a change in attitude and ideas related to smoking. Research began to emerge regarding the ill effects the habit. Brosch began experiments with tobacco carcinogens on guinea pigs, while states including Washington, Iowa, and Tennessee outlawed the product entirely (tobbaco). However, in later years smoking became socially accepted again and the media began to glorify the product. Women touted tobacco smoking’s energy, weight loss, and stress reducing properties. The idea that a “man’s man” smoked was widely publicized, hence the iconic Marlboro
In the history of tobacco, it financially helped the American Revolutionary War in 1776 “by serving as collateral for loans the Americans borrowed from France” (University of Dayton). People smoke like chimneys, and moreover, today, people think that cigarettes just look like friends of smokers, although tobacco and its products are very dangerous to human health.
Proposed bills are being passed around in many different states to ban the use of cigarette smoking. Banning the controlled substance, nicotine, will put people in jail or up to a 6,250 fine if they continue to use the drug. Even though banning cigarette smoking will be hard to do, many civilians argue a good reason to ban the drug is because of all the lives that tobacco takes. Many places and manufacture companies have already banned and discourage tobacco use on their property due to the dangerous effects tobacco causes. The effects are smoking are very hazardous and causes many diseases. Clinical directors and Health Initiative Programs explain the causes and effects cigarette smoking causes. The ultimate goal is to have the world free
Every year cigarette smoking is responsible for 500,000 premature deaths (Nugel), you do not want to be just another statistic, do you? America’s first cash crop was tobacco. That means that tobacco has been around for a really long time. It was not until 1865, though, that cigarettes were sold commercially. They were sold to soldiers at the end of the Civil War (Dowshen). From then, cigarettes spread like wildfire, and it was not until 1964 that anyone made a stand about the negative effects of tobacco and cigarettes. People start smoking for all different reasons, some to fit in and some to “escape”. Regardless, it is a horrible habit. 3900 children will try their first cigarette today. Amongst adults who currently smoke, 68% of them
World economics spurs much movement and communication in the world. This makes the transaction of goods a common topic among groups. Money is a known driver of business conversations. Businesses look to how maximize their total profit. The fashion industry is the same way as any other production business. As in many sectors, if overseers are not conscious issues will rise in quality care for workers. The documentary The True Cost explains how this has been occurring for years and what factors are playing into the inefficiency of the worlds clothing industry.
Over two thousand years ago, when Christopher Columbus discovered tobacco, it began to be smoked and chewed (Cancer Council). Tobacco use was not known all over the world until the 1600s (Cancer Council). In the 1700s, many tobacco industries had been developed all over the world (Cancer Council). Great factors that helped the mass production of tobacco products and the growth of markets, were advertisements and promotions. After tobacco products started to become popular, machine made cigarettes were introduced (Cancer Council). In the 1900s, scientists began to discover that tobacco products have nicotine, an addictive drug, in them (Kessler). The nicotine caused tobacco sales to be extremely high, because it was causing addiction. The high