Colonial Williamsburg is snuffing th use of tobacco in its ... Everyone knows the 18th century is gone,” Mr. White said. Colonial Williamsburg declared the smoking ban to improve the health ...

The most bizarre application, however, would probably be as a cure for symptoms of drowning in the 18th century. Tobacco smoke enema kits were kept by the Thames River in London. Should someone ...

This story was originally published in our Nov/Dec 2023 issue as "Blowing Smoke ... until the end of the 18th century,” Serdeczny says. Anecdotal reports of rescuers using chest compressions appear at ...

Because of the growing evidence of its dangers, St. John Paul II first banned smoking inside ... XIV had the first tobacco factory built in Rome in the mid-18th century in the city’s more ...

This timeline effectively sandwiches the arrival of tobacco in Western Europe in the 16th century – an act commonly credited to Sir Walter Raleigh in 1586. They found that smoking not only ...