18th Century

1701:

Nicholas Andryde Boisregard warns that young people excessively using tobacco usually experience trembling, unsteady hands, staggering feet and suffer a withering of "their noble parts."

1719:

France finally bans smoking with the exceptions of the Franche-Comte, Flanders (present-day Belgium), and Alsace.

1727:

‘Tobacco notes’ starts to appear in Virginia used to buy various amounts of tobacco.

In Bhutan, the first ban on smoking in the country in public is put in place.

1730:

First tobacco factory begin in Virginia.

Virginia also becomes the first of many states adopting Inspection Acts in order to control sales of tobacco and its quality of exports.

But during the 1750s, the state suffers from a drought and tobacco crops fail.

1761:

English doctors John Hill and Percival Pott warn that consequences of smoking can cause various types of cancers.

1762:

Cigar smoking is introduced in the US, its main importer of cigars: Cuba.

1779:

Pope Benedict XII opens a tobacco factory.

1785:

Tobacco planting in the U.S. moves to the West.

1788:

Tobacco is imported by the Spanish in the Mississippi Valley.

Australia starts importing tobacco.

1791:

The French National Assembly gives the freedom to the people to grow and sell tobacco.

1794:

U.S. Congress puts in place a tax for tobacco.

1798:

Physician Benjamin Rush writes about the medical dangers of tobacco and that smoking it can lead to drunkenness.