In the 1900s, Being a ‘Cigarette Fiend’ Was a Legitimate Defense for Murder

The theory that regular cigarette smoking invariably turned the user homicidal was so widespread that it became a regular part of the insanity defense: 1899: George W. Schan fatally shoots his father twice in the head. Despite ongoing tension at home ov

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