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First Women to Smoke
In France during the 1800s, prostitutes were the first women to smoke publicly -
Tobacco Begins Being Grown Commercially
In Canada, tobacco begins being grown commercially in southern Ontario. -
Lewis and Clark
Lewis and Clark explore the NorthWest, using gifts of tobacco as life insurance. -
Nicotine
Cerioli isolates nicotine, the “essential oil” or essence of tobacco” -
Lewis and Clark Christmas
Lewis and Clark had their first Christmas in the NorthWest. They divided their tobacco into 12 and shared them between those who used tobacco and those who did not. -
Nicotine isolated from smoke
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin isolates nicotine from tobacco smoke -
Cuban Cigars
In connecticut, Cuban cigar roller brought to suffield to train local workers. -
Farewell to Tobacco
Farewell to Tobacco, by Charles Lamb is written -
Spain deregulates tobacco
Spain deregulates the growing, processing, and selling of tobacco -
Smoking banned in Lancaster
Smoking is Banned in Lancaster: fine of twenty shillings. -
Sante Fe Trail
The Santa Fe trail was opened by American traders, and they found out that the ladies of the city smoked “seegaritos. -
Snus
In Sweden, Jacob Frederik Ljunglof began to manufacture snus, which is a powder made up of tobacco, salt, and sodium carbonate. -
Santa Claus Smokes
C. Clement Moore writes a poem, “A visit from St. Nicholas,” which describes Santa Claus as a pipe-smoker. -
Perique
Acadian Pierre Chenet, also known as “Perique,” began to grow the tobacco of the Choctaw Indians for commercial use in St. James Perish. He also improves the fermentation process for the pungent tobacco. -
England imports many cigars
England imports about 26 pounds of cigars a year. The cigar becomes so popular that in four years, England imports 250,000 pounds of cigars a year. -
Matches
The first friction match is invented. The chemist John Walker used phosphorus on top of a wooden stick, and called his invention “Congreves.” Later they became known as “Lucifers,” then as “matches.” -
Cigarettes become popular in Spain
In Spain, the cigarette becomes the new popular way of smoking. They’re sold in “rolls” and individually. In Germany, Ludwig Reimann and Wilhelm Heinrich Posselt are the first people to isolate nicotine in a pure form, and concluded it as a “dangerous poison.” -
Anti-tobaccco movement in US
First organized anti-tobacco movement in the US begins. Tobacco use is considered to dry out the mouth, "creating a morbid or diseased thirst" which only liquor could quench. -
Prussian Government cigar law
Prussian Government enacts a law that cigars should be smoked in a sort of wire-mesh contraption designed to prevent sparks setting fire to ladies' skirts. -
Paper rolled cigar
The invention of the paper rolled cigar spread among Egyptian and Turkish soldiers -
Mormons declare God opposes tobacco
Mormon founder Joseph Smith announces to church leaders that God opposes strong drinks, hot drinks and tobacco. -
New Englander says tobacco is a poison
New Englander Samuel Green stated that tobacco is an insecticide, a poison, and can kill a man. -
Boston bans smoking
Boston bans smoking as a fire hazard -
France cigarette monopoly
In France, a monopoly begins manufacture of cigarettes -
Molecular form of nicotine
The correct molecular form of nicotine is established -
Mexican War tobacco
During the Mexican War, US soldiers bring back from the Southwest a taste for the darker, richer tobacco favored in Latin countries, cigarros and cigareillos, leading to an explosive increase in the use of the cigar. -
Hand rolles cigarettes are sold in London
Philip Morris opens a shop in Bond Street, London, selling hand-rolled Turkish cigarettes. -
Tobacco War
In Italy a “tobacco war” occurs as Italians stop smoking to protest Austrian control of the tobacco monopoly. When Austrian soldiers smoke cigars on the street, deadly riots break out.
