Smoking, Backgrounds
September 20, 2019
Thomas Middleton’s play, The Roaring Girl , is not the best known, nor indeed the most hilarious, of Jacobean comedies. But the title…
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History of cigarettes
July 12, 2019
Tobacco marketers featured healthy, vigorous, fun-loving people in their ads. Often these were celebrity figures from sports and entertainment…
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Smoked salmon History
May 3, 2019
A marriage made in New York, though both partners came with plenty of baggage. Jerry Deutsch/iStockphoto.com hide caption toggle caption…
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History of pipe smoking
April 3, 2019
Tobacco Pipes by Ivor Noël Hume The author holds a long clay churchwarden pipe, which is among the most fragile of eighteenth-century…
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Description of tobacco
November 24, 2018
Having previously written about my approach to blending, I realized that bringing information about different tobacco types to light…
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100 pack year smoking History
October 15, 2018
1London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK Abstract Lung cancer incidence in smokers is roughly proportional…
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History of Smoke Alarms
December 7, 2015
In 1915, people living in homes or apartments could expect that if their home caught fire, they’d have a one in ten chance of that…
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