Today was day 12 of trumps criminal trial and it started with another hearing on his repeated and pretty flagrant at times violations of his gag order which is put in place because he cannot seem to help himself from attacking the judge, the jury, are potential witnesses. To date judge merchan city violated the order for the 10th time. For comments he made when he attacked the integrity of the jury that will determine his fate. The judge found trump in Contempt Of Court and fined the expresident another 1000 bringing the fines up to 10 grand. Judge merchan said he was prepared to go farther. He warmed of donald trump does not stop violating the order, he would be left with no choice but to consider jail time. He made it clear he does not take the threat lightly calling it a last resort. He also said, quote, mr. Trump, its important to understand that the last thing i want to do is put you in jail. You are the former president of the United States and possibly the next president as well
I decided they were critical questions i wanted to get into about what was the meaning of smoking, its impact, as an american historian, i began to realize there was almost no aspect of 20thcentury american ,ife from advertising to film medicine and science, regulation politics, that in some way could not be encapsulated by investigating the history of smoking the cigarette century. The problem again how best to do that. I added a fifth question as i was getting near the end. So did smoking come to be popular in the course of the 20th century . Almost no one smokes cigarettes as recently as 1900. Cigarette consumption was 50 per capita per adult. In 1970, it was 4000. Its really a modern behavior although tobacco use would go into the earliest days of native in the americas. Those interested in how do you create a modern behavior around major industry and this became the focus of my early work. How do you go from no one smoking in 1900 to a majority of men smoking by mid century and ,