| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 4 History of tobacco in chronological order |
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| History of tobacco in chronological order: 1800 |
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| The German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), the author of Faust, |
| was an ardent crusader against smoking. He was among the first to observe and |
| describe the evils of passive smoking. |
| JAMA, November 27, 1996, p. 1630 |
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| Goethe, the German poet and naturalist who died in 1832, is best known for writing |
| Dr. Faust, but among many other interests he was an early tobacco control advocate. |
| He wrote: "Smoking is a wicked impoliteness, an impertinent, antisocial act. Smokers |
| poison the air for miles around and suffocate respectable citizens who don't deign to |
| defend themselves by retaliating in kind. Who could ever enter the room of a smoker |
| without feeling ill?" |
| Tobacco Control, Winter 1995, p. 332 |
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| Former president John Quincy Adams wrote in 1845 of how he had, as a young man, |
| been addicted to tobacco smoking and chewing before he had successfully stopped. |
| "I have often wished that every individual... afflicted with this artificial passion could |
| force it upon himself to try but for three months the experiment which I made, sure that |
| it would turn every acre of tobacco land into a wheat field, and add five years to the |
| average of human life." |
| Smoking: The Artificial Passion, p. xvi |
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| In 1843, the French tobacco monopoly began manufacturing tobacco in paper tubes, |
| and named them cigarettes. |
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