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Tobacco, and the economic system of mercantilism, factored into the grievances of the colonists leading to the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783 CE) and continued to exert a powerful hold over the economy once the United States of America was established

In the United States, although arsenic chemical sprays in tobacco had been replaced by the synthetic chlorinated hydrocarbons from the mid-1940s, tobacco plants continued to take arsenic poison from the heavily contaminated soils and the arsenic content of cigarettes increased by more than 300% between 1932 and 1952

Han M, Jeong S, Song J, Park SJ, Min Lee C, Lee K, et al

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New issues with uneven implementation of local flavored tobacco policies threaten to exacerbate the situation further