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Chart of the day: In these cities, breathing air is like smoking cigarettes Thu 16 Aug 2018 at 8:06pm , updated Fri 17 Aug 2018 at 1:23am The World Health Organisation keeps a close eye on air quality data, providing a global insight into just what we are all breathing every day
But before all that, Dana Cook looks back and finds what others have said about him
034) "The East Indians do use to make little balls of the juice of the hearbe tobaco and the ashes of cockle-shells wrought up together, and dryed in the shadow, and in their travaile they place one of the balls between their neather lip and their teeth, sucking the same continually, and letting down the moysture, and it keepeth them both from hunger and thirst for the space of three or four days." Oviedo says of the implements used by the Indians in smoking: "The hollow cane used by them is called tobaco and that that name is not given to the plant or to the stupor caused by its use." A writer alluding to the same subject says: "The name tobacco is supposed to be derived from the Indian tobaccos, given by the Caribs to the pipe in which they smoked the plant." Others derive it from Tabasco, a province of Mexico
And yet, at the same time and this is the amazing thing the undeniably big topics, the ones that will define our future, get virtually no discussion at all, he added