Tobacco Timeline

By chavisd23@students.spprep.org
  • 6000 BCE

    6,000 BC

    6,000 BC
    It is believed that this is when tobacco began to grow in America.
  • 1 BCE

    1 BC

    This is when tobacco began to be used in many different ways including religious and medicinal ways.
  • 1571

    1571

    1571
    A Spanish doctor named Nicolas Monardes wrote a book that claimed tobacco cured 36 health problems.

  • 1600's

    tobacco was commonly used as a form of money.

  • 1826

    nicotine was discovered and soon after it was discovered it was named a dangerous poison

  • 1900's

    cigarettes were a major tobacco product made and sold.

  • 1914-1918

    cigarettes use skyrocketed suffering world war 1.

  • 1953

    1953
    A doctor’s study showed that putting tar from cigarettes on the backs of mice causes tumors.

  • 1982

    1982
    a surgeon reported that secondhand smoke can cause lung cancer and many other health problems

  • 1990

    smoking is banned on all flights except to Alaska and Hawaii.