Selling Cigars with Health Claims

 

(National Cigar History Museum) Tobacco and health have been associated as long as the weed has been used. The earliest health uses by native Americans were as a poultice, an emetic and other uses best forgotten. Practitioners in Europe tried it for various ailments, and drug store jars testify to its medical uses by some folks well into the 1800’s. It is not surprising that smoking should be deemed by some as a healthy practice as pipes of shredded leaf were prescribed by doctors for centuries. As demand for cigars escalated in the early 1830’s what more natural than healthy cigars? Continued

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