#250 | A History of Smoking

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There are over a billion smokers across the world, and over 7
trillion cigarettes are smoked every year.



In this episode, we'll look at the history of smoking, from the
"discovery" of tobacco by Christopher Columbus to how tobacco
companies keep us smoking, even when we know the dangers to our
health.





Tobacco in indigenous societies in the Americas

1492 - the year Christopher Columbus discovers tobacco

The etymology of "tobacco"

Jean Nicot finds a tobacco plant in Lisbon

Catherine de Médici tries "snuff" for the first time

Smoking sweeps across Europe

The invention of the cigarette

The invention of the cigarette rolling machine

Smoking during World War I & II

The 1964 headline: "Cigarettes Peril Health, U.S. Report
Concludes."

Smoking & society

Cigarette advertising

Legal cases against Big Tobacco

The future of smoking - can it really be "smoke-free"?



Full interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary
available on the website:
https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/history-of-smoking


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