Tobacco in Revolutionary America

Social aspects, Cultural aspects, Early Effects and disease

This exhibit provides insight into the evolution of tobacco and the social and cultural aspects of tobacco consumption. 

The pleasure drug was a huge success in colonial America, but that did not extend well across seas. This made it more taboo in Great Britain. In Europe the high society elites did not accept tobacco at first into their lifestyles because it was seen as something people of a lower class did and the fear of being grouped into that social class by assiocation. The United States decreased production of the drug following the years (1776-1789) to focus on the revolution and the reputation it was recieving but continued to be one of the main producers of the drug until China took that reign.