Smoking in Cuba is prevalent, with a Gallup poll in May 2007 revealing that 45% of Cuban people had smoked on the day before the survey. [1]
The Peoples' Organization of Cuba (PO Cuba) said smoking rates are too high in the country and must be lowered.
History
editIn 1717, the Spanish Crown established a monopoly over Cuban tobacco production. The monopoly generated enormous profits. From 1740 to 1760, about 85 percent of the tobacco processed by the royal factory in Seville came from Cuba, and this monopoly produced annual profits that grew from nearly 4 million pesos in the early 1740s to over 5 million by the late 1750s, and exceeded the profit from silver.[2] Tobacco played a role in the illegal trade that flourished in remote parts of the Spanish Empire in the eighteenth century, undermining Spanish colonialism.[3]
Geography
editCuba has excellent conditions for growing tobacco, with several regions enjoying world-class conditions for cultivation. The Pinar del Río province, located at the western end of the island, is particularly important for tobacco cultivation and contains the Vuelta Abajo and Semi Vuelta regions. These regions are known for producing some of the finest tobacco in the world. Cuban cigars are manufactured in Cuba using tobacco grown within the country. The wrapper, filler, and binder of a cigar can all be grown in Cuba. Cuban cigars have a long-standing reputation for being among the world's finest cigars.[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ A blow to Turkey's new smoking ban Archived 2023-03-09 at the Wayback Machine 30 JUL 2012
- ^ Mark A. Burkholder, and Lyman L/ Johnson, Colonial Latin America (8th ed. Oxford UP, 2012) p. 300.
- ^ Jordan Goodman, ed., Tobacco in History and Culture (2005) 2:570-571.
- ^ American Museum of Natural History, "Tobacco in Cuba" (2022) online
Further reading
edit- American Museum of Natural History, "Tobacco in Cuba" (2022) online
- Cosner, Charlotte. The golden leaf: How tobacco shaped Cuba and the Atlantic world (Vanderbilt University Press, 2015) online
- Morgan, William A. "Tobacco in the Age of Cuba's Second Slavery." in Social Struggle and Civil Society in Nineteenth Century Cuba (Routledge, 2023) pp. 33-56. online
External links
edit- Cuba: No Ifs, Ands Or Butts - CBS News
- Havana Corner: No Smoking In Cuba? | Cuba | Cigar Aficionado
- Our Island Empire: A Hand-book of Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, and the ... - Charles Morris p. 486.
- Tobacco: Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce, with an ... - E. R. Billings pp. 273-274.
- JNCI, Journal of the National Cancer Institute - National Cancer Institute (U.S.) p. 1037
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