Alfred Dunhill

LONDON – I smoked my first cigarette, a Woodbine, in the coal shed, aged seven. A few years later, I surreptitiously took my pocket money and visited the tobacconist in town. Whether or not he believed my story about buying my uncle a pipe, I have no idea, but he ended up with it anyway […]

BOSTON (AP) – Massachusetts has banned cigarette lighters that look like guns, pens, lobster claws and other objects in an effort to cut down on accidental fires started by children. State Fire Marshal Stephen Coan said the lighters are attractive to children because they look like toys. Officials say children using matches and lighters sparked […]

In past centuries, medicine was very different than it is today. There was little knowledge about the causes of illness until Louis Pasteur reported in 1864 that germs cause disease. Even the idea of washing your hands to avoid germs was a 20th-century idea. Most medicines were herbs and potions that had been found to […]