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History of Tobacco

History of Tobacco. Origin. 1 st encounter: Christopher Columbus Oct 14, 1492 Native to Americas Desert Southwest Slopes of Continental Pacific side of mountains Central and South America Andean slopes Old world pipes for Cannabis not tobacco. Named from Y shaped tube

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History of Tobacco

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  1. History of Tobacco

  2. Origin • 1st encounter: • Christopher Columbus • Oct 14, 1492 • Native to Americas • Desert Southwest • Slopes of Continental Pacific side of mountains • Central and South America • Andean slopes • Old world pipes for Cannabis not tobacco • Named from Y shaped tube • Tabago used for Inhalation of tobacco powder

  3. Native Wild Tobacco Species

  4. Native Wild Tobacco Species

  5. Rustica • Small leaves • Harsh smoking tobacco • Historical movement • Mexico • Pacific area • Across US Botanical • Genus Nicotiana • 66 species • Named for Jean Nicot • Physician & Scientist • Origin of Nicotine • Introduced rustica to France in 1560 • Use • Great Lakes Indians • Smoked in Calumets • Stems of Peace Pipes

  6. Tabacum • Large leaf • Milder, richer taste • Historical movement • Eastern Andean Piedmont • Ecuador • Peru • Cuba • Venezuela • Panama

  7. Tabacum • Foundation for modern tobacco • Not found in nature • Introduced to France • From Brazil • By Jean Andre Themet • Physician & Scientist

  8. Medicinal Purgative Worms Toothaches Disinfectant Cuts Bruises Bites Snake Spiders Insects Lice Poultices Chest colds Boils Internal infections Inflammations Toothpaste Painkiller Appetite Suppressant Uses • Religion • Fasting • Mystical & Prophetic • Smoking • Rolled like modern cigar • Looked like large cricket, cigarra • Cigarette is French

  9. Tobacco in the United States • Pipes Suggest use 4-5000 years ago Large bird pipe found near Newtown Pike Disk pipes Calumet • Peace Pipe • From Calumeau meaning reed • Sacred stem • Unimportant bowl

  10. Tobacco in the United States • Cultivation • Prior to arrival of Europeans • Cave and Cliff Dwellers of Central & Eastern Kentucky • Mound builders • Cherokee, Shawnee, Choctaw & Chickasaw • Rituals • Pouches or gourds around neck • Mixed with other things • Narcotics • Hallucinogens • Psychoactives

  11. Tobacco in the United States Modern use • Proliferation in 16th & 17th Century • Maryland • Burley • Widely established in little more than a century • 1600’s • Ravenous appetite for N. tabacum in England • English settlers established Jamestown in 1607 • Spain held monopoly • Natives using rustica • John Rolfe illegally acquires seeds of tabacum from Cuba • Tobacco flourishes and becomes foundation of economy

  12. Tobacco in the United States Export to England • 20,000 lbs in 1618 • 24 million by 1664 • Production spread • Maryland • Pennsylvania • The Carolinas Tobacco attacks • Sensual indulgence • Dirty habit • Doctors tried to restrict to medicinal uses only • King James I • Vocal critic • Counterblaste to Tobacco • Vile, obnoxious weed

  13. Economic Benefits • Revenues • Price reached 1974 equivalent of $500/lb • Taxes • Per hogshead tax • Increase weight per hogshead from 600 lb to 1000 to 1300 range • Customs • Excise duties

  14. Tobacco in Kentucky Earliest report • John Finley • Shawnee near Spring Station (near Midway, Woodford Co) • 1752 • Subsistence level during early settlement • Excesses by 1780’s • Exports • Isolation • By river • Indians • Pirates • Changing river channels • Water levels • Spanish customs

  15. James Wilkinson • Arrived in Lexington 1784 • Highly ambitious • Not overly scrupulous • Founded Frankfort • 1786 • Used Kentucky River to ship tobacco

  16. Established Flotilla for tobacco & other goods • Flat Boats • Left Frankfort April 1787 bound for New Orleans • Good seized at Natchez • Had cargo released through secret meeting • Paid entry duty at New Orleans • Sold crop

  17. Monopoly Established • 1788 Ports opened to any who paid entry fee • 1790 • 250,000 lb sold • Price • $9.50 to $10 /100 wt in New Orleans • $2.50 in Kentucky • Farmers organize own convoy • Spanish limit western leaf to 40,000 lb • Excess reaches New Orleans illegally

  18. Early History 1700’s • 1795 • Port declared duty free through treaty with Spain • Reached totals of 100 million pound • Decline • By late 1790’s

  19. Early 1800’s • Decline continues • Low of 4 million by 1814 • Bright Leaf Tobacco • Discovered in 1839 • Slave named Stephen • Fell asleep due to heat of wood fire in barn • Awoke to find fire almost out • Placed charred logs to revive fire • Dry heated turned tobacco bright yellow • Philip Morris, Esq. • Tobacconist and importer of fine cigars • Opens shop on Bond St. in London - 1847

  20. Burley • Prior to 1864 • Dark air-cured tobacco • Stand Up • Rainbow White • Red Twist Bud • Little Burley • Red Burley

  21. Spring of 1864 George Webb & Joseph Fore Tenant on Captain Fred Kautz Farm Brown Co., Ohio Near Higginsport Ran low of seeds for sewing beds Bought extra seeds from George Barkley Bracken Co., KY Transplants looked unusual Destroyed plants 1865 Sewed unused seeds from previous year Grew to harvest & cured leaf Plant characteristics Pale green Creamy stalk White veins Cured leaf Fine, light texture Smoked bitter No heavy load of sugars Saved seed from 1865 crop Produced 20,000 lbs High price at Cincinnati market Attracted attention White Burley

  22. 1866 • St. Louis Fair & Exposition • First and second prize for fine cutter leaves • $58/ 100wt

  23. White Burley Advantages • Did not have to be primed • Stalk cut & air cured quickly • Well suited to uptake of flavoring • Found its may into cigarettes • Improvement in quality • Kentucky becomes No. 1 • Surpassing Virginia • Maintained No. 1 Ranking till 1929 • Surpassed by North Carolina

  24. Tobacco Companies The American Tobacco Co. • Formed By J.B. Duke • President of W. Duke & Sons • From five companies • Called the Trust • Over 250 companies swallowed by Trust by Late 1800’s • Ruthless price wars • Reduced prices to farmer • 1-3 cents per pound • 8-12 cents per pound previous

  25. Philip Morris & Co. • 1901 • Appointed by royal warrant as tobacconist for King Edward VII

  26. Formation of The Association • Formed in 1904 • To force better prices • Black Patch Area of Kentucky & Tennessee • 70% of growers joined • Guerrilla-like tactics used from 1906-1908 • Nightriders • Spread to burley region • Targeted the Trust • Change in sentiment against Nightriders • Federal lawsuits

  27. Trust Holdings by 1910 • 86% of cigarettes • 85% of plugs • 76% of smoking tobacco • 80% fine cut chew • 96% snuff • 91% little cigars • 14% of cigars

  28. Sherman Antitrust Act • Trust in violation 1911 • Broken into big four • American Tobacco Co. • Liggett and Myers • Lorillard • R.J. Reynolds

  29. R.J. Reynolds • Introduced new type of cigarette containing all types used in other brands in 1913 • Turkish • Virginia & North Carolina Bright Leaf • White Burley • Camel • Marketed in 20 cigarette packs like expensive brands • Sold for 10 cents • Market share • 20% by 1915 • 45% by 1922

  30. The Burley Tobacco Growers Association • Formed in 1920 • Poor crop • Low prices • Lasted only 5 years • Members failed to renew pledge

  31. Philip Morris • 1929 • Purchases factory in Richmond, Virginia • Begins manufacturing its own cigarettes

  32. Agricultural Adjustment Act • Began 1933 • Set acreage & loan rates • Amended in 1938 • With further restriction

  33. The Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association • Began in 1941 • Called “New Pool” • New allotments formed to control production

  34. Referendums to control production • 1955, 25% cut due to surplus • 1960 • Price support levels frozen at 1959 level • Subsequent years with adjustment for increased expense

  35. 1963 • Bumper crop • 755 million pounds • Reduced allotment • 10% in 1964 • 10% in 1965 • 15% in 1966 • 1966 & 1967 • Failed to shift control from acreage to poundage • 1970 • Allotments cut by 10%

  36. 1971 • New program • Limits • Acreage • Poundage • 1975 • Acreage dropped

  37. US Government Action • 1964 • Surgeon Generals Report • 1981 • Companies told farmer that they could not grow enough to supply demand • 1982 • Farmer overproduced • No-Net-Cost Tobacco Program Act • Not cost to general public

  38. 1983 • Severe drought • Record low yields • Poor quality

  39. 1985 • Tobacco Improvement Act • Reduced Prices • Established new formulas for production control • Company release buying intentions by Jan 15 • 5 year average of exports • Pool stocks • Set prices increase • 2/3 based previous 5 years • Throw of highest & lowest • 1/3 based on increased in production costs • Established a buy-out of pool stocks by companies

  40. 1986-1994 • 1986-1989 • Short supply • One price market • No distinction for quality • Producer strip in fewer grades • 1992 • Surplus supply • 1994 • Surplus buy down by Companies • One of best crops grown in Kentucky fields • Poor curing year

  41. 1995, 1996 & 1997 • 1995 • American Tobacco Company merges with British American Tobacco • 1996 • 29% increase in quota • High world demand • 1997 • Wet start • Dry finish • Poor cure • Green tobacco • Fat stems • Would not cure • Bled onto lamina • Black tobacco • Poor quality

  42. Master Settlement Agreement November 23, 1998 • Signed by representatives of 46 states, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, the District of Columbia, the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, Lorillard Tobacco Company, Philip Morris Incorporated, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Commonwealth Tobacco, and Liggett & Myers. 

  43. 1998-2000 • 1998 • Average season • Poor yields • 1999 • Quota cut 29% • Little effect due to high effective quota • Japan Tobacco Inc. purchases RJ Reynolds' international tobacco operations

  44. 2000 – 2001 • 2000 • 45.3% quota cut • Philip Morris announces Partnering Program • Star Scientific • Bulk curing • Low nitrosamines • 2001 • Reduction in quota • Change in regulation to allow only 10% carry forward • Vector Tobacco • grows low nicotine burley crop • Illinois, Iowa, Mississippi, Louisiana, & Pennsylvania

  45. 2002 - 2003 • 2002 • Reduction in quota • 2003 • Reduction in quota • Wet season • Low yields • Production short

  46. Grower’s Law Suit -2003 • D. LAMAR DELOACH, et al. • Companies unlawfully agreed and conspired to restrain competition and fix prices for and allocate domestic flue-cured and burley tobacco sold at tobacco auctions in the United States, and engaged in other unlawful conduct to stabilize prices of tobacco at levels below those that would have existed in a competitive market. • Defendants caused the quota under the federal tobacco program to be depressed.

  47. 2004 • 10% rule applies for the first time • Farmers loose more than half of quota carry forward • R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and Brown & Williamson merge as Reynolds American, Inc. • Buyout has best chance of passing • Heavy blue mold pressure • Poor root development

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