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1900: Brosch experiments with tobacco carcinogenisis on guinea pigs 1900: REGULATION: Washington, Iowa, Tennessee and North Dakota have outlawed the sale of cigarettes. 1900: CONSUMPTION: 4.4 billion cigarettes are sold this year. The anti-cigarette movement has destroyed many smaller companies. Buck Duke is selling 9 out of 10 cigarettes in the US. 1900: SCOTUS: US Supreme Court uphold's Tennessee's ban on cigarette sales. One Justice, repeating a popular notion of the day, says, "there are many [cigarettes] whose tobacco has been mixed with opium or some other drug, and whose wrapper has been saturated in a solution of arsenic.". 1900: BUSINESS: RJ Reynolds reluctantly folds his company into Duke's Tobacco Trust 1900: BUSINESS: There are appoximately 300,000 cigar brands on the market 1901: REGULATION: Strong anti-cigarette activity in 43 of the 45 states. "[O]nly Wyoming and Louisiana had paid no attention to the cigarette controversy, while the other forty-three states either already had anti-cigarette laws on the books, were considering new or tougher anti-cigarette laws, or were the scenes of heavy anti- cigarette activity" (Dillow, 1981:10). 1901: ENGLAND: END OF AN AGE: QUEEN VICTORIA DIES. Edward VII, the tobacco-hating queen's son and successor, gathers friends together in a large drawing room at Buckingham Palace. He enters the room with a lit cigar in his hand and announces, "Gentlemen, you may smoke." 1901: ENGLAND: BUSINESS: By royal warrant, Philip Morris & Co., Ltd., is appointed tobacconist for King Edward VII. 1901: BUSINESS: Duke fuses his Continental Tobacco and American Tobacco companies into Consolidated Tobacco. 1901: BUSINESS: UK: Duke's Consolidated buys the British Ogden tobacco firm, signalling a raid on the British industry. 1901-12-10: BUSINESS: UK: Incorporation of The Imperial Tobacco Co. of Great Britain and Ireland Ltd; Imperial is born. 13 of the largest British tobacco companies, including W.D. & H.O. Wills, unite to combat Duke's take-over, and form the Bristol-based Imperial Tobacco Co. 1901: CONSUMPTION: 3.5 billion cigarettes and 6 billion cigars are sold. Four in five American men smoke at least one cigar a day. 1902: BUSINESS: In an end to the war, Imperial Tobacco (UK) and Buck Duke's American Tobacco Co. (USA) agree to stay in their own countries, and unite to form a joint venture, the British American Tobacco Company (BAT) to sell both companies' brands abroad. 1902: Philip Morris sets up a corporation on Broad St. in New York to sell its British brands, including one named "Marlboro, " named after "Great Marlborough Street," site of Philip Morris' original factory in London. Ownership is split 50-50 between the British parent and American partners. 1902: BUSINESS: ENGLAND: King Albert, long a fan of Philip Morris, Ltd., appoints the Bond St. boutique royal tobacconist.(RK) 1902: USA: Sears, Roebuck and Co catalogue (page 441) sells "Sure Cure for the Tobacco Habit". Slogan "Tobacco to the Dogs". The product "will destroy the effects of nicotine". (LB) 1902: Spring: Topsy, the ill-tempered Coney Island elephant, kills J. F. Blount, a keeper, who tried to feed a lighted cigarette to her. She picked him up with her trunk and dashed him to the ground, killing him instantly. On January 5, 1903, 1500 watch Topsy's electrocution in Coney Island. 1903: BRAZIL: Souza Cruz founded. 1903: LEGISLATION: Kansas Legislature enacts the "slobbering" bill, prohibiting spitting tobacco on floors, walls or carpets in churches, schools or public buildings. 1903-08: The August Harpers Weekly says, "A great many thoughtful and intelligent men who smoke don't know if it does them good or harm. They notice bad effects when they smoke too much. They know that having once acquired the habit, it bothers them . . . to have their allowance of tobacco cut off." 1904: BUSINESS: Connorton's Tobacco Directory lists 2,124 "cigarettes, cigarros and cheroots." (GTAT) 1904: BUSINESS: Cigarette coupons first used as "come ons" for a new chain of tobacco stores. 1904: BUSINESS: Duke forms the American Tobacco Co. by the merger of 2 subsidiaries, Consolidated and American & Continental. The only form of tobacco Duke does not control is cigars--the form with the most prestige. 1904: American Lung Association is founded to fight tuberculosis. 1904: MEDICINE: The first laboratory synthesis of nicotine is reported 1904: New York: A judge sends a woman is sent to jail for 30 days for smoking in front of her children. 1904: New York CIty. A woman is arrested for smoking a cigarette in an automobile. "You can't do that on Fifth Avenue," the arresting officer says 1904: Kentucky tobacco farmers form a violent "protective association" to protect themselves against rapacious tactics of large manufacturers, mostly the Duke combine. They destroy tobacco factories, crops, and even murder other planters. Disbanded in 1915. 1905: POLITICS: Indiana legislature bribery attempt is exposed, leading to passage of total cigarette ban 1905: U.S. warships head to Nicaragua on behalf of William Albers, a Amaerican accused of evading tobacco taxes 1905: BUSINESS: ATC acquires R.A. Patterson's Lucky Strike company. 1905: REGULATION: "Tobacco" does not appear in the US Pharmacopoeia, an official government listing of drugs. "The removal of tobacco from the Pharmacopoeia was the price that had to be paid to get the support of tobacco state legislators for the Food and Drug Act of 1906. The elimination of the word tobacco automatically removed the leaf from FDA supervision."--Smoking and Politics: Policymaking and the Federal Bureaucracy Fritschler, A. Lee. 1969, p. 37 1906: BUSINESS: Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company is formed 1906: BUSINESS: R.J. Reynolds introduces Prince Albert pipe tobacco 1906-06-30: FEDERAL FOOD AND DRUGS ACT of 1906 prohibits sale of adulterated foods and drugs, and mandates honest statement of contents on labels. Food and Drug Administration begins. Originally, nicotine is on the list of drugs; after tobacco industry lobbying efforts, nicotine is removed from the list. Definition of a drug includes medicines and preparations listed in U.S. Pharmacoepia or National Formulary. 1914 interpretation advised that tobacco be included only when used to cure, mitigate, or prevent disease. 1906: AGRICULTURE: KY: "Night Riders" formed. A group of angry farmers don hoods and ride horses out to terrorize other farmers who sold tobacco to the price-gouging American Tobacco Company. They burned barns and fields and even lynched people. 1906-04: SMOKEFREE: IN: Richmond resident Orville Stanley is arrested and pleads guilty to possession and unlawful use of tobacco. Fines are suspended because he is a minor. 1907: Business owners are refusing to hire smokers. On August 8, the New York Times writes: "Business ... is doing what all the anti-cigarette specialists could not do." 1907: BUSINESS: American Tobacco purchases Butler & Butler, acquiring the Pall Mall brand. 1907: REGULATION: WASHINGTON passes a law making it illegal to "manufacture, sell, exchange, barter, dispose of or give away any cigarettes, cigarette paper or cigarette wrappers." 1907: REGULATION: Teddy Roosevelt's Justice Department files anti-trust charges against American Tobacco. 1907: ADVERTISING: Bull Durham ad shocks New York. In 1907, the American Tobacco Company signed a contract with the operator of a horse-drawn stage line in New York to lease advertising space. One very controversial ad appeared for "Bull" Durham, the nation's leading tobacco brand. "Onlookers were shocked at the sight of the bull's well-endowed maleness so graphically rendered, and had the driver of the first stage that appeared on the street arrested." The City of New York sued the coach company and its client, the American Tobacco Company, to ban the ads. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court in 1911, which upheld New York's ban. Ironically, this case ruling took place the day after the same court handed down a historic verdict ordering the dissolution of the Buck Duke's $240 million-a-year American Tobacco Company monopoly, which the court deemed in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. --Moyer, D. The Tobacco Reference Guide http://new.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter4/Chap4Page52.html 1907-01-26: REGULATION: THE TILLMAN ACT. Congress enacts law prohibiting campaign contributions by corporations to candidates for national posts. However, no restrictions were placed on the individuals who owned or managed the corporations. Enforcement was imposssible. "Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of today."--Theodore Roosevelt 1911: Tobacco -growing is allowed in England for the first time in more than 250 years. 1911: American Tobacco Co. establishes a Research Department. 1911-08-03: PUBLISHING: LIFE MAGAZINE's cover features a diapered baby girl smoking one of her mother's cigarettes. The caption: "My Lady Nicotine." 1911-05-29: SCOTUS: "Trustbusters" break up American Tobacco Co. US Supreme Court dissolves Duke's trust as a monopoly and in violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890). The major companies to emerge are: American Tobacco Co., R.J. Reynolds, Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company (Durham, NC), Lorillard and British-American Tobacco (BAT). RJ Reynolds says, "Now watch me give Buck Duke hell." BAT is listed on the London Stock Exchange. 1918: Frederick J. Pack publishes "Tobaco and Human Efficiency," the most comprehensive compilation of anti-cigarette opinion to date. (RK) 1918: BUSINESS: CHINA: American-Chinese Tobacco Co. (meiguo-zhongguo yancao gongsi) formed for the "sole purpose of buying tobacco in the US and selling it to China" ["The Tobacco Project"] 1919: HEALTH: Washington University medical student Alton Ochsner is summoned to observe lung cancer surgery--something, he is told, he may never see again. He doesn't see another case for 17 years. Then he sees 8 in six months--all smokers who had picked up the habit in WW I. 1919: Vice President Thomas Marshall says, "What this country really needs is a good 5-cent cigar." 1918-07-29: PEOPLE: Richard Joshua (R.J.) Reynolds, 68, dies of pancreatic cancer in Winston-Salem, NC. 1919: The 18th Admendment ratified by states. (LB) 1919: Evangelist Billy Sunday declares "Prohibition is won; now for tobacco". The success of alcohol prohibition suggusted to some the possibility of tobacco prohibition (LB) 1919: Lucy Payne Gaston's tactics are attracting lawsuits; she is asked to resign from Anti-Cigarettel League of the World. 1919: BUSINESS: The Philip Morris coronet logo is introduced. 1919: BUSINESS: George Whelan Tobacco Products picks up tiny US Philip Morris Company, including PM's brands Cambridge, Oxford Blues, English Ovals, Players, and Marlboro. The new Philip Morris & Company, Ltd. Inc, is incorporated in Richmond, VA. 1919: BUSINESS: Manufactured cigarettes surpass smoking tobacco in poundage of tobacco consumed. (RK) 1919: BUSINESS: ADVERTINSING: Lorillard unsuccessfully targets women with its Helmar and Murad brands. (RK) 1920: CONSUMPTION: US has a per capita smoking rate of 477 cigarettes (The Tax Burden on Tobacco, Historical Compilation Volume 35, 2000) 1920: CONSUMPTION: Per capita cigarette consumption: 419/year. Per capita cigar consumption: 80/year. (International Smoking Statistics) 1920: ATC's Richmond Research Laboratory conducts a "continuing study of the components of tobacco and tobacco smoke." 1920-06-11: Republican party leaders, meeting in the "smoke-filled room" (Suite 408-10 of Chicago's Blackstone Hotel) engineered the presidential nomination of Warren G. Harding. 1920-10: OPINION: "" in Atlantic Monthly says, "scientific truth" has found "that the claims of those who inveigh aginst tobacco are wholy without foundation has been proved time and again by famous chemists, physicians, toxicologists, physiologists, and experts of every nation and clime." (RK) 1920-06: The phrase "smoke-filled room" --meaning politiking and deal-making hidden from public view-- is engendered, after senators and others in Suite 404 in the Chicago's Blackstone Hotel decide that Warren G. Harding should be the Republican nominee for president. 1921: BUSINESS: RJR spends $8 million in advertising, mostly on Camel; inaugurates the "I'd Walk a Mile for a Camel" slogan. (RK) 1921: BUSINESS: KOREA: Korea Tobacco and Ginseng (KTG)'s monopoly is expanded to include tobacco. 1921-04-11: TAXES: State tobacco taxation begins. Iowa is the first state to add its own cigarette tax (2 cents a pack) onto the federal excise levy (6 cents).(RK) 1922: REGULATION: 15 states have banned the sale, manufacture, possession, advertising and/or use of cigarettes. 1922: BUSINESS: RJR takes Industry leadership. from American for first time.(RK) 1922: BUSINESS: Manufactured cigarettes surpass plug in poundage of tobacco consumed to become US's highest grossing tobacco product. (RK) 1922: PEOPLE: Lucy Payne Gaston runs for President of the U.S. against "cigarette face" Warren G. Harding, whom she asks to quit smoking. Within two years they both will be dead, he of a stroke mid-term, she of throat cancer. (There is no record of her ever having smoked.) 1923: BUSINESS: MARKET SHARE: Camel has 45% of the US market. 1923: NEW JERSEY: A Secaucus teacher's attempt to get her job back after being fired for cigarette smoking reaches the state Supreme Court, but fails 1923: LITERATURE: "Confessions of Zeno" by Italo Svevo 1923: MARKET SHARE: Camel has over 40% of the US market. 1924: Lucy Payne Gaston dies of throat cancer. 1924: CONSUMPTION: 73 billion cigarettes sold in US 1924: Reader's Digest publishes "Does Tobacco Injure the Human Body," the beginning of a RD campaign to make people think before starting to smoke. 1924: BUSINESS: Philip Morris introduces Marlboro, a women's cigarette that is "Mild as May" 1924: BUSINESS: Durham, NC: James B. Duke creates Duke University. Duke gives an endowment to Trinity College. Under provisions of the fund, Trinity becomes Duke University 1925: James Buchanan Duke dies. 1925: HEALTH: Lung cancer death rate is 1.7 per 100,000 (US Census Bureau)(RK). 1925: BUSINESS: Philip Morris' Marlboro, "Mild as May," targets "decent, respectable" women. "Has smoking any more to do with a woman's morals than has the color of her hair?" A 1927 ad reads, "Women quickly develop discerning taste. That is why Marlboros now ride in so many limousines, attend so many bridge parties, and repose in so many handbags." 1925: BUSINESS: Helen Hayes, Al Jolson and Amelia Earhart endorse Luckies 1925: BUSINESS: Both Percival Hill and Buck Duke die by end of the year; Duke was 69. George Washington Hill becomes President of American Tobacco Co. Becomes known for creating the slogans, "Reach for a Lucky" and "With men who know tobacco best, it's Luckies two to one" 1925: SOCIETY: Women's college Bryn Mawr lifts its ban on smoking. 1925: OPINION: "American Mercury" magazine: "A dispassionate review of the [scientific] findings compels the conclusion that the cigarette is tobacco in its mildest form, and that tobacco, used moderately by people in normal health, does not appreciably impair either the mental efficiency or the physical condition." (RK) 1926: BUSINESS: ADVERTISING: P. Lorillard introduces Old Gold cigarettes with expensive campaigns. John Held Flappers, Petty girls, comic-strip style illustrations and "Not a Cough in a Carload" helped the brand capture 7% of the market by 1930. 1926: BUSINESS: ADVERTISING: Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield targets women for second-hand smoke in "Blow some my way" ad. There is a public outcry. 1926: BUSINESS: First Menthol cigarettes debut. Lloyd (Spud) Hughes' menthol Spud Brand and recipe are sold to Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co., which markets it nationally. 1926: BUSINESS: FRANCE: French Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré created an organization responsible for reimbursing public debt, including a service to manage the tobacco monopoly called the Service d'Exploitation Industrielle des Tabacs (SEIT). 1927: LEGISLATION: Kansas is the last state to drop its ban on cigarette sales. 1927: Eduard Haas, Austrian candy executive invents Pez, rectangular candies sold in tins as an aid for those who wanted to stop smoking and came only in peppermint; the name was derived from the German word for peppermint, Pfefferminz. In 1952, Haas marketed it in the US as a stop-smoking device, but this failed--some say because the dispenser looked like a cigarette lighter. He remarketed it as a candy for children, and the rest is history. 1927: BUSINESS: FRANCE: 'Gitane' cigarettes are introduced. 1927: BUSINESS: John Hill founds the agency that would eventually become Hill and Knowlton in Cleveland, Ohio. Instead of working on his own, as was the practice in those days, Hill hired other agents and trained them to work in his "style" - thus becoming, in effect, the founder of the modern-day PR Consultancy. 1927: BUSINESS: British American Tobacco (BATCo) crosses the Atlantic to acquire USA's Brown & Williamson. B&W introduces the 15-cent-pack Raleigh. Raleigh soon reintroduces the concept of coupons for merchandise. 1927: ADVERTISING: 1927 Philip Morris, RJR and ATC target women in Marlboro, Camel and Lucky Strike advertisements. A sensation is created when George Washington Hill aims Lucky Strike advertising campaign at women for the first time, using testimonials from female movie stars and singers. Soon Lucky Strike has 38% of the American market. Smoking initiation rates among adolescent females triple between 1925-1935. 1927: ADVERTISING: Lorillard: "Old Gold cigarettes ... not a cough in a carload" 1927-09: Long Island Railroad grants full rights to women in smoking cars. 1928: HEALTH: Lombard & Doering examine 217 Mass. cancer victims, comparing age, gender, economic status, diet, smoking and drinking. Their New England Journal of Medicine report finds overall cancer rates only slightly less for nonsmokers, but finds 34 of 35 site-specific (lung, lips, cheek, jaw) cancer sufferers are heavy smokers.(RK). 1928: HEALTH: German scientist proposes that lung cancers among non-smoking women could be caused by inhalation of their husbands' smoke. Schnönherr E. Beitrag zur Statistik und Klinik der Lungentumoren. Z Krebsforsch 1928;27: 436-50. 1928: The Journal of the American Medical Association criticizes claims that smoking is healthful. From the 1930s to 1950s it accepts advertising that make such claims. (4. Lawlor DA, et.al. Smoking and Ill Health: Does Lay Epidemiology Explain the Failure of Smoking Cessation Programs Among Deprived Populations? Am J Public Health. 2003;93:266-270.) 1928-30: SAUDI ARABIA: Ikhwan (Brethren) Rebellion. Wahhabi (Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab (1703-87), founded the sect) leader Abdel Aziz Ibn Saud succeeded in uniting many tribes and capturing Saudi cities. He declared himself King in the 1920s. The fierce, ultra-religious wahhabi police (mutawa) would invade peoples' homes and beat the occupants if they smelled tobacco. The Wahhabis' revolt, it is said, was partially aggravated by tobacco issues. As part of a compromise that ended the uprising, King Abdel Aziz agreed to ban tobacco imports (but never did). 1928: BUSINESS: ADVERTISING: American Tobacco unleashes an ad campaign for Lucky Strike aimed at women: "Reach for a Lucky instead of a sweet." Candy makers object, and the campaign later targets "over-indulgence" instead. 1929: HEALTH: Fritz Lickint of Dresden publishes the first formal statistical evidence of a lung cancer-tobacco link, based on a case series showing that lung cancer sufferers were likely to be smokers. Lickint also argued that tobacco use was the best way to explain the fact that lung cancer struck men four or five times more often than women (since women smoked much less). (Proctor) 1929: HEALTH: Statistician Frederick Hoffman in the "American Review of Tuberculosis" finds "There is no definite evidence that smoking habits are a direct contributory cause toward malignant growths in the lungs."(RK). 1928-04-01: ADVERTISING: ATC: Edward Bernays mounts a "freedom march" of smoking debutantes/fashion models who walk down Fifth Avenue during the Easter parade dressed as Statues of Liberty and holding aloft their Lucky Strike cigarettes as "torches of freedom." See: http://www.prmuseum.com/bernays/bernays_1929.html 1929: ADVERTISING: ATC: "Avoid that future shadow by refraining from overindulgence, if you would maintain the modern figure of fashion. We do not represent that smoking Lucky Strike cigarettes will bring modern figures or cause the reduction of flesh. We do declare that when tempted to do yourself too well, if you will 'Reach for a Lucky' instead, you will avoid overindulgence in things that cause excess weight and, by avoiding overindulgence, maintain a modern, graceful form," warns one ad which compared ladies' jowls. 1929: ADVERTISING: ATC: "Many prominent athletes smoke Luckies all day long with no harmful effects to wind or physician condition" 1929: BUSINESS: Philip Morris buys a factory in Richmond, Virginia, and finally begins manufacturing its own cigarettes. 1929: BUSINESS: Whelan's Tobacco Products Corporation crashes shortly before the market; Philip Morris is picked up by Rube Ellis, who calls in Leonard McKitterick to help run it. (RK). 1929: Fires: National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)), prompted by a fatal fire in Lowell, MA, conducts research on cigarette-caused fires on the behalf of Congress. 1929-04: BUSINESS: The Reynolds Building opens in Winston-Salem, NC -- the first skyscraper south of Baltimore. Designed by Shreve & Lamb, who designed the Empire State Building, is named "Building of the Year" in 1929 by the National Association of Architects. 1930: MARKET SHARE: 1940: CONSUMPTION: Adult Americans smoke 2,558 cigarettes per capita a year, 2 1/2 times the consumption of 1930. (RK) (ASG cites per capita consumption for 1940 at 1,976.) 1940: JAPAN: WORLD WAR II: English names on cigarette packs are replaced with Japanese ones as part of a nationwide campaign to boost national prestige. 1940: HEALTH: 7,121 cases of lung cancer reported in the US. (RK). 1940: HEALTH: JAMA publishes an article linking smoking with a higher risk of coronary disease. 1940: BUSINESS: MARKET SHARE BY COMPANY: 1946-12-02: MEDIA: Newsweek runs a story by Dr Wm D Stroud, professor of cardiology at the UPenn Graduate School of Medicine, "Smoke, Drink, and Get Well." 1946: A letter from a Lorillard chemist to its manufacturing committee states: "Certain scientists and medical authorities have claimed for many years that the use of tobacco contributes to cancer development in susceptible people. Just enough evidence has been presented to justify the possibility of such a presumption." (Maryland "Medicaid" Lawsuit 5/1/96) 1947: ADVERTISING: RJR invites doctors to its scientific Camel exhibit at the AMA convention. 1947: BUSINESS: CHINA: China closes its tobacco market to foreign companies. BAT, almost half of whose revenues come from China, is especially hurt. 1947-05-18: MEDIA: NY Times Sunday magazine carries a glowIng tribute to tobacco by staff writer W B Hayward, "Why We Smoke -- We Like It." The sidebar, purporting to show an opposing side, contains no mention of recent studies indicating links to heart disease, cancer and decreased longevity. 1947: CULTURE: "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)," Written by Merle Travis for Tex Williams, is national hit. The lyric "Puff, Puff, Puff, And if you smoke yourself to death" is later used in Cipollone case as defense that Rose Cipollone knew cigarettes were dangerous. 1947: LITIGATION: Grady Carter begins smoking Lucky Strikes 1947: Why Do We Smoke Cigarettes? from The Psychology of Everyday Living by Ernest Dichter 1948: HEALTH: UK: Sir Richard Doll has written: On I January 1948, when I began to work with Bradford Hill, there was, if anything, less awareness of the possible iii effects of smoking than there had been 50 years before. For the spread of the cigarette habit, which was as entrenched among male doctors as among the rest of the adult male population (80 per cent of whom smoked) had so dulled the collective sense that tobacco might be a threat to health that the possibility that it might be the culprit was given only scant attention. Doll, R. "The First Reports on Smoking and Lung Cancer." 1948: HEALTH: The Journal of the American Medical Association argues, "more can be said in behalf of smoking as a form of escape from tension than against it . . . there does not seem to be any preponderance of evidence that would indicate the abolition of the use of tobacco as a substance contrary to the public health." 1948: HEALTH: Lung cancer has grown 5 times faster than other cancers since 1938; behind stomach cancer, it is now the most common form of the disease. 1948: BUSINESS: SOUTH AFRICA: Anton Rupert founds The Rembrandt Tobaco Corporation 1948, 1949: MARSHALL PLAN: 93,000 tons of tobacco are shipped free of charge to Germany. [Proctor] An April NY Times headline of 1948 read, "210,000,000 Cigarettes to Aid German Economy." 1949: CONSUMPTION: 44-47% of all adult Americans smoke; over 50% of men, and about 33% of women. 1949: LEGISLATION: Agricultural Adjustment Act is passed again, this time authorizing price supports. 1949: BUSINESS: Industry establishes the Tobacco Tax Council to lobby for lower tobacco taxes. 1949: ADVERTISING: RJR: "Not one single case of throat irritation due to smoking Camels!" 1949: MEDIA: RJR: NBC's ''Camel News Caravan,'' a nightly news program, airs, proudly bearing the name of its tobacco-company sponsor. It will run till 1956.
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1940-49 they cost 10 to 25 cents depending on brand and year and location like fancy hotel lobby or cigarette girls in facy restaurants. The military sold them much cheaper on base PX about half I was wondering about this too. Here is a site to check costs: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/tables/economics/cigtax.htm Around 1970 it was an average of 38 cen…ts a pack - probably around $3.50 a carton and a bit higher through vending machines. I remember paying 45 cents a pack at our local restaurant's vending machine. Hope this helps ) Shangy! [email protected] I worked at a self-service Gulf station in northeast Tennessee around this time (1977 and 1978) and recall that a gallon of regular Gulf gasoline and a pack of cigarettes (the major brands like Marlboro, Salem, Newport, etc sold for the same price US $0.479 (forty seven and nine/tenth cents each). Jimmy Carter was president of the United States and the minimum wage was also $2.65 or there about and I could purchase approximately (before payroll taxes) five gallons of gasoline for one hour of wages. wataugariver (MORE) How much did a record cost in 1940? Record costs in and around the time-line of 1940 varied, mostly depending on Labels, they generally cost from 35 cents to a high of 75 cents. Keep in mind these prices take in… several variables such as Labels, location, and without sale prices etc. (MORE) How to Roll a Cigarette Rolling cigarettes may not be the most glamorous way to get your dose of nicotine, but what way really is, since it's bad for your health to begin with? Rolling your own cigar…ettes, however, may be a lot cheaper because cigarettes by the pack are so expensive these days. If you want to save money and still be able to smoke then you should learn how to roll your own cigarettes.Determine if you are going to smoke filtered or non-filtered cigarettes. Non-filtered is more dangerous because you don't have something filtering the harmful chemicals that are inside of cigarettes. Filtered also is a bit better because you won't have all of those little pieces of tobacco get inside your mouth. Another reason to decide whether you want filtered or non-filtered is whether you want to roll by hand or use a machine. If you roll by hand then you will most likely roll non-filtered. If you roll with a machine you can use a filter because the machine will roll it for you and add the filter onto it.Determine if you are going to smoke menthol or non-menthol. It is a matter of taste preference when it comes to the different flavors. When rolling cigarettes, you will be using bagged or canned tobacco. Bagged tobacco is cheaper. However, they both have the same amount of tobacco in them.There are many different places you can buy the tobacco you have chosen to roll and smoke. Some places offer a bulk discount rate and others will charge you at the state's minimum price. You can most often find places that not only sell tobacco but they will also sell the machines, filters, and papers you will need to roll your own cigarettes. Make sure you have your photo ID with you or they will not sell any tobacco products to you.You will need a flat surface to roll your tobacco on. This is so it won't go all over the floor or table where you are sitting. You can use a plate to put the amount of tobacco you are going to use for your hand rolled cigarette on.Open the bag or can of tobacco and make sure it is dry and clean. You don't want to use moist tobacco because it won't stay lit very long or won't light at all. You also don't want it to be dirty because then you will get the dirt in your mouth. On the other hand, you don't want the tobacco to be too dry because then it will fall apart easily and won't stay rolled or will be too fine.Take your rolling paper, making sure the glued edge of it is on the inside and hold it in both hands in between your two forefingers and two thumbs. Crease the paper so it is opened up.Put the tobacco inside the rolling paper and roll up and down so the two ends of the paper meet. Do this several times to even it out.Once you have it evened out, start from the bottom and roll all the way up until you get to the part of the paper that is glued. Lick the glued edge, apply some pressure to the paper but not too much or the paper will rip and press the two ends together.Light the cigarette and enjoy. Repeat these steps every time you want to roll your own cigarette without a filter. =''/>If you wish to use a filter, you will need a device to handle it. The machine can also be used to roll unfiltered cigarettes if you can't get the hand of doing it manually.Although smoking is bad for your health, you can save a lot of money by rolling your own. You can still have the filtered cigarettes if you use a machine. However, a machine will cost more. All you need for hand-rolled cigarettes is the bagged or canned tobacco, rolling papers, and a little bit of patience when trying to learn how to roll on your own.If you practice with someone who already knows how to do this, it won't take long to start rolling them on your own. Just don't give up the first time because you won't get it perfect your first few tries. Make sure you don't overfill the paper with too much tobacco or the paper will rip. Also, try rolling smoothly from start to finish without stopping. (MORE) The Many Advantages of Quitting Cigarettes It's no secret that smoking is hazardous for your health. Yet, many people can't resist the urge to light up a cigarette. Nicotine addiction is extremely difficult to quit. If… you are a smoker and want to kick the habit for good, then expect a tough battle ahead. However, it can be done with support from family and friends. Quitting cigarettes also has several enormous benefits.Smoking increases the risk for lung cancer. Smokers are also at a greater risk of developing mouth and throat cancer, both of which are very rare among non-smokers. Some studies also suggest that smoking increases the odds for developing cancer in the bladder, kidneys and esophagus.A single pack of cigarettes costs around $5. If you smoke three packs a week, then that is $60 a month. If you are a chain smoker, then the monthly cost is even higher. Think about what you can do with that extra money. You can take your family out to dinner, pay a bill or donate it to charity.Even if you are not all that concerned with your own health, you should at least be considerate of those around you. Even if you only smoke outdoors, those within close proximity can still be affected by the smoke. There is also the concern of third-hand smoke, which occurs when tobacco smoke clings on to objects like furniture and is inhaled by other people.Aside from damages to the lungs, smoking also has an adverse effect on your outer appearance. Smoking can cause yellow teeth, bags under your eyes and wrinkles around your face. Studies also show that smoking can damage hair follicles, which causes gray and thinner hair.Quitting cigarettes is hard, but the consequences of not quitting can lead to regret and irreversible damages down the road. Whatever pleasure you get from smoking, the pleasure comes at a heavy price.Smoking damages important body systems, but, over time, those systems can repair themselves. Within five years of quitting, your risk of having a stoke is reduced to that of a non-smoker, and your mouth, throat or esophageal cancer risk is half of a smoker's. Fifteen years after quitting, you have successfully decreased your lung, pancreatic, bladder and cervical cancer risks, and your coronary disease risks are equal to those of a non-smoker. (MORE) History of the Movement Towards Banning Cigarettes If you smoke, you are likely aware that tobacco is becoming more heavily regulated with each passing year. The movement towards the banning of cigarettes is a battle that has …been fought since 1613 when James Rolfe discovered the major social, industrial, economic and medical implications of tobacco.The regulation of tobacco began with King James I of England when he called tobacco "loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain" and "dangerous to the lungs." Despite his opinion, tobacco became an economic mainstay in the colonies, particularly in Maryland and Virginia. In America, the movement toward the banning of cigarettes officially began in 1965 when Congress passed the Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act (FCLAA), which mandated a health warning on cigarette packs.In 1966, John P. Banzhaf, III requested that a spokesman be allowed to present contrasting views on the issue of the benefits of smoking. Citing the Fairness Doctrine, Banzhaf requested that the contrasting views of tobacco consumption be given equal time to present the values of smoking to the public. The FCC denied his request.The latest round of FDA regulations (in 2010) prohibits tobacco companies from sponsoring cultural, athletic and musical events such as sporting events and concerts. If you hear a radio ad from a tobacco company, you will notice that the ad contains no music or sound effects, only words. These regulations were intended to make tobacco products less appealing to children, adolescents and teenagers.After the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act passed in 2010, five tobacco companies filed a civil lawsuit in federal court against the FDA as a response. They disagreed with a number of issues in the FSPTCA, including the ban of colors and graphics on cigarette packs, as well as the ban on outdoor advertising and free samples of tobacco products. Out of all the complaints raised by the tobacco companies, only the regulation of colors and graphics on the packaging was reversed because that regulation violated the First Amendment rights of the tobacco companies.If you smoke cigarettes and would like to continue smoking cigarettes, be aware that further regulations on tobacco sales and consumption will be less frequent. However, many states are simply increasing tax rates on tobacco sales. This means that tobacco products will become more costly to purchase. Even with the increased cost of smoking, there is little evidence to suggest that the pattern of consumption of tobacco products will change.Some commentators have raised the question, especially in light of the fact that increased prices from higher taxes do not seem to reduce sales, of whether increasing tobacco taxes is ethical. The reasoning is that taxing one group of people preferentially over another group seems to violate American notions of fairness. Further complicating the discussion is the fact that higher percentages of lower-income people smoke, effectively making tobacco taxes a tax on the poor. (MORE) Health Facts: The Poisons Found in Cigarettes Cigarettes look like harmless tobacco leaves covered in white paper. Cigarette facts reveal that there are over 4,000 different compounds in cigarettes. A large number of thes…e compounds are toxic and considered poisonous. They damage your cells, and many of them cause cancer; be aware of the poisonous toxins and how they affect your health.Tar is a collection of the solid particles you inhale when you light a cigarette. It is a mixture of a lot of chemicals that cause cancer. Once the tar settles, a sticky brown residue is formed that stains your teeth, fingers and lungs. Tar is an ingredient listed on cigarette packs, but is not the only dangerous chemical. Cigarette packs that contain less tar still have the other toxic chemicals.Arsenic is one of the most dangerous chemicals found in cigarettes. It damages your heart and its blood vessels as well as causes cancer. Arsenic in small amounts accumulates in your body and build ups over a period of months and years. Arsenic is such a powerful toxin that it worsens the effects of the other toxic chemicals.Formaldehyde is used to preserve dead bodies, kill bacteria and manufacture other types of chemicals. In cigarettes, it causes diseases in your lungs and airways. It is also one of the cancer causing toxins. Even in second-hand smoke, formaldehyde increases your lifetime cancer risk.Hydrogen cyanide is a poisonous gas. This is the chemical in tobacco smoke that does the most damage to your heart and blood vessels. It does not cause cancer, but increases the risk of other cancer causing chemicals.Tobacco smoke contains many other poisons that harmfully affect your body. These poisons use your blood vessels to travel throughout your body. It is important to learn as many cigarette facts as possible if you are thinking about smoking or want to quit.Tobacco smoke contains over 4,000 different chemicals, many of which are considered toxic. In addition, 69 of these chemicals are known to increase your cancer risk. (MORE) Common Toxins Found in Cigarettes Cigarette toxins fill your body with poisons, carcinogens and other harmful ingredients. These toxins damage multiple parts of your body, including your lungs, immune system a…nd heart. There are hundreds of toxins in cigarettes, but the most well-known are nicotine, ammonia, arsenic and formaldehyde.One of the best known cigarette toxins is nicotine, which is a type of poison. Nicotine is the main addictive ingredient in cigarettes that produces chemicals that make you feel good. This makes it harder to quit because your body starts yearning for the euphoria that nicotine provides.You use ammonia to clean your windows and fertilize your yard, but it is also in your cigarettes. This toxin helps enhance the effects of nicotine by converting bound nicotine into free nicotine molecules, which allows nicotine to absorb more readily into your bloodstream. The addition of ammonia to cigarettes fuels addiction by making the high from the nicotine stronger and more intense.Arsenic is a toxic metal that is found in many poisons, especially rat bait. Inorganic arsenic, which occurs when arsenic mixes with sulfur, chlorine and oxygen, is a leading cause of lung, liver and bladder cancers. This metal is used in pesticides on tobacco farms, and each cigarette contains small quantities of this metal. As a smoker, you breathe in up to 2.4 micrograms of this toxin per pack of cigarettes.Formaldehyde is a known carcinogen that is often used to preserve dead bodies. This chemical irritates your nose, mouth and eyes when you breathe in cigarette smoke. Sidestream smoke, which is the smoke that burns off the end of your cigarette, contains up to three times the safe level of formaldehyde.Over 7,000 chemicals are found in one cigarette, and over 300 of those are either poisonous or known carcinogens. These toxins settle into your respiratory tract where they disperse to your lungs and other organs to cause damage. Secondhand smoke still contains over 200 toxins, including at least 50 carcinogens, which means that those around you who are not smoking cigarettes are still at risk for health problems due to your addiction.Arsenic, one of the toxins in cigarettes, is sometimes removed from the body through chelation. Symptoms of arsenic poisoning start with headaches, confusion and drowsiness. If you believe you are experiencing arsenic poisoning, see a doctor. (MORE) What Is in Cigarettes? A Comprehensive Breakdown of Ingredients Cigarettes are the most popular way to consume tobacco in America. It is easy to find something that tells you not to smoke because cigarettes are bad for you. Yet what is in …cigarettes really? Most cigarettes today are made of reconstituted tobacco rolled in to a paper cylinder, and many of them contain other additives.Cigarettes are relatively simple objects. They primarily consist of tobacco rolled inside of paper. At one end of the paper a filter is placed, typically made out of cellulose acetate. The tobacco used in the cigarette is not normal tobacco, but is actually reconstituted tobacco. Glue is also used in cigarettes to bond the paper together in a cylinder shape.Tobacco is really just a plant. Normal tobacco is simply the dried leaf of this plant. Reconstituted tobacco contains tobacco leaf and other parts of the plant. These other parts normally would not be used, but they are processed and added back into the original tobacco. This is done to decrease the cost of making cigarettes.Nicotine is the most commonly cited chemical in tobacco. Nicotine is a psychoactive chemical which produces noticeable changes in the mind. It increases alertness and relaxation while decreasing anxiety. Nicotine is not actually very addictive by itself. It does however become addictive when combined with other chemicals found in cigarettes.There are many additives in cigarettes. Ammonia is added to cigarettes to increase nicotine absorption. Glycerol is used to keep the cigarettes dry. The most significant additives are MAOIs. MAOIs increase the effects of nicotine. The addition of MAOIs make cigarettes significantly more addictive as well.Cigarettes are relatively simple in concept. They are just shredded tobacco leaf rolled in paper. However, there is a lot more than just tobacco and paper in a cigarette.Cigarettes contain ammonia to help the nicotine vapor absorb more quickly into the lungs. In addition, cigarettes contain cadmium, benzene and nickel. (MORE) How much did an automobile cost in 1940? \u0006 \u0006 I saw in an old newspaper where you could buy a new car in 1940 for around 1000.00 or less but for sure in 1965 a big nice ford NEW was $2000.00 and a new 1965 ford must…ang was $1995.00 (MORE)','url':'http://www.answers.com/Q/How_much_did_a_pack_of_cigarettes_cost_in_the_1940s','og_descr':'1940-49 they cost 10 to 25 cents depending on brand and year and location like fancy hotel lobby or cigarette girls in facy restaurants.The military sold them much cheaper on base PX about half.
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