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Tobacco


1997 Mississippi becomes 1st state to settle tobacco suit

1997 Negotiators announce agreement in principle with tobacco industry

1995 Federal judge allows lawsuit claiming U.S. tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive and manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked

1993 Doris Duke, heiress (American Tobacco Co), dies at 80

1987 Erskine Caldwell, novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83

1978 Zeb Turner, country-rock performer (Chew Tobacco Rag), dies at 62

1969 Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio and TV

1956 France raises tobacco tax 20% due to war in Algeria

1936 RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show and monologue from Tobacco Road and comedy)

1933 Jack Kirkland's "Tobacco Road," premieres in New York City

1930 U.S. tobacco industry produced 123 billion cigarettes in 1930

1915 Zeb Turner, country-rock performer (Chew Tobacco Rag)

1912 Doris Duke, New York City, heiress, American Tobacco Co

1912 Doris Duke, New York City, multi-millionaire, American Tobacco heiress

1910 U.S. tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910

1903 Erskine P Caldwell, author, Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre

1890 James Barton, New Jersey, Broadway actor, Tobacco Road, Iceman Cometh

1890 Henry Hull, born in Louisville, Kentucky, actor, Tobacco Rd, Boys Town, High Sierra

1880 Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in Connecticut

1869 Deli Me forms T B V tobacco in Sumatra

1865 Battle of Ft. Tobacco, Virginia

1862 Federal tax levied on tobacco

1862 Internal Revenue Law imposes 1st federal taxes on inheritance, tobacco and on incomes over $600 (progressive rate)

1639 Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed

1586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia

1558 Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes

1492 Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco


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