Question

ANALYZING A DOCUMENT
The excerpt below comes from a New York newspaper article that appeared on September 26, 1874. In it the reporter describes the tenement factories in which cigar makers had to live and work. Use it to answer the questions below.

Answer 1

. . . Entering the narrow hall, . . . the olfactories [sense of smell] are at once startled by a pungent odor, so strong in some instances as to make a sensitive person sneeze “on sight,” or rather “on smell.” This is, of course, the tobacco. . . . It was said that in cold weather the odor was so overpowering and pungent, doors and windows being closed, that persons unaccustomed thereto were compelled to shut their eyes in pain. Yet about 4,000 people eat, cook and sleep, as well as work, in these places. Young children fall asleep from the narcotic effects of the pervading odor. Women suffer greatly from it. . . .
—The New York Sun, September 26, 1874

Answer 2

During what time of year was the tobacco odor most overpowering? Why?

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

What's your main question....?

Answer 6

During what time of year was the tobacco odor most overpowering? Why?

Answer 7

... During the late 1800s factory workers became increasingly more productive

Answer 8

For tobacco

Answer 9

Tobacco is a product prepared from the leaves of the tobacco plant by curing them. The plant is categorized within the genus Nicotiana of the Solanaceae (nightshade) family. While there are more than 70 species of tobacco, the chief commercial crop is N. tabacum. The more potent species N. rustica is also widely used around the world.

Tobacco contains the alkaloid nicotine, a stimulant. Dried tobacco leaves are mainly smoked in cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco and flavored shisha tobacco. They are also consumed as snuff, chewing tobacco and dipping tobacco.

Answer 10

i got it..

Answer 11

its.. winter, when the factories shut the windows, trapping the tobacco odors inside