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Jump to full article: Los Angeles Times, 2009-06-29
Author: Shara Yurkiewicz
Intro: 6,000 BC: First cultivation of the tobacco plant in the Americas.
1 BC: Indigenous Americans begin smoking, chewing and using tobacco in enemas.
AD 600-1,000: Mayans create smoking's first pictorial record on a pottery vessel.
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2002: In the largest payment to a single plaintiff in history, Philip Morris pays $28 billion in damages to a 64-year-old woman with lung cancer.
June 22, 2009: President Obama signs the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, approved by Congress on June 12, placing regulation of tobacco under power of the FDA.
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