A Brief History of Tobacco in Our Culture

• 1913 - Birth of the modern cigarette, RJR introduces Camel cigarettes

• 1933 - Agriculture Adjustment Act, tobacco a protected crop

• 1961 - Tobacco Institute celebrates 350th anniversary of America’s first tobacco crop

• 1964 - 1st Surgeon General’s Report linking smoking and lung cancer

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Notes:

1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act guaranteed price supports in exchange for limiting production via allotments and quotas, the government would buy the unsold tobacco