"The Tale of Tea is the saga of globalisation. Tea gave birth to paper money, the Opium Wars and Hong Kong, triggered … China and moulded Chinese art and culture. Whilst black tea dominates the global market today, such tea is a recent … invention. No tea plantations existed in the world's largest black tea producing countries, India, Kenya and Sri Lanka, when the …

This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea … declines in mortality rates after tea drinking became widespread and following larger volumes of tea imports. Results are …