Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade

The Anglo-Oriental Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade, generally known by the somewhat shorter name of Society for the Suppression of the Opium Trade (SSOT), was a British lobbying group in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, opposed to the opium trade. == History == In 1874 a group of Quaker businessmen offered a £200 prize for the best essay on the British opium trade.

This neuron ends here.