when was tobacco introduced to jamestown Virginia A Short History of Jamestown

A 10 percent increase in cigarette prices reduces the smoking rate of among young adults by 3.5 percent and kids by 6 to 7 percent

For example, when New York City accompanied increases in local cigarette taxes with other tobacco control services and activities, cigarette smoking among adults declined by 19 percent between 2002 and 2006

Rolfe wanted to introduce sweeter strains from Trinidad, using the hard-to-obtain Spanish seeds he named his Virginia-grown strain of the tobacco "Orinoco", possibly in honor of tobacco popularized by Sir Walter Raleigh's expeditions in the 1580s up the Orinoco River in Guiana in search of the legendary City of Gold, El Dorado

Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1992