Talk:History of commercial tobacco in the United States/Archives/2012

Where's the rest?

Could someone possibly clean up the grammar and spelling errors (eg., "were as" probably meaning "whereas.") Some of these sentences are almost unintelligible. So maybe written by a high school student with a poor grasp of English who is also on the payroll of the cigarette industry (see next comment)? :>DMinissa (talk) 01:08, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

This article looks like it could've been written by the cigarette industry. There's only a single line at the very end about any health effects, and "Cigarettes go mainstream" is hardly the end of the story. The article has blatent NPOV issues. Namely the entire 20th Century and beyond is completely absent from it. --Resplendent (talk) 07:55, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

It really is a question of where "history" ends. It is a sibling article to Tobacco in the United States which should have info about Big Tobacco in the US. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 08:09, 14 March 2010 (UTC) (a non-smoker)

Rename?

Is "commercial" needed in the title? -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 08:09, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

The Toxicity of Smoking

"Toxicity is the degree to which a substance can damage an organism." — from the Wiki article on "toxicity" The Wiki artcle on the health effects of smoking offers plenty of evidence and makes it abundantly clear that tobacco smoke has a fairly high degree of toxicity. In short it's toxic. Tobacco for personal use is a toxic substance. Any article covering and aspect of tobacco production and use should make it clear that it is raised by and large for personal use, as so used is toxic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tonygumbrell (talk • contribs) 01:12, 22 April 2011 (UTC)