The first grass smoking man had lost in the course of history. Jordan Goodman in "the history of tobacco," a book made, most tobacco began to be planted in the vicinity of thousands of years ago in Mexico and Brazil. Where most people begin tobacco and medicinal value due to prevailing etiquette and grow tobacco, they will likely then tobacco and other plants blend of ecstasy. However, there is evidence that at that time they did not smoke or use of this plant every day.
Tobacco before Columbus reached America, it has been a specialty of the Americas. In fact, shortly after Columbus arrived in America to know this plant. When Columbus reached the Bahamas, local residents will be dried tobacco leaves gave him. Columbus with dried tobacco leaves returned to Spain in less than 35 years, people will realize that tobacco is exciting and makes the formation of a strong dependence. Europeans (mostly Spanish, Portuguese and French, but the Englishman Sir Walter Rory also mentioned tobacco) in the 16th century, most of the time, the use of tobacco and the American way, they will be as analgesics. In 1592, the poet Elizabethan Anthony Chute mentioned in his poem, tobacco health benefits are too large to doctors in order to do business as a secret, secret.
Spain has become a major importer of tobacco, they even claim to be the world capital of Seville tobacco capital. In 1612, in order to weaken the strength of the Spanish, the British and the Virginia colonist John Rolfe in Trinidad Tasmania or South America got tobacco seeds (even if only at the time the Spaniards threaten indigenous seeds sold to the Spanish), and the they planted in Virginia. Rolfe's tobacco plantation became the world's first commercial tobacco cultivation base. Comparison of different cultivation techniques, seed and soil in the world, he soon created a unique tobacco and occupied Europe.
Unfortunately, tobacco cultivation is very hard, when the Virginia colony lack of labor. So African slaves were shipped over. The late 17th century, Jamestown, Virginia, to provide 25 million lbs of tobacco every year in Europe. Tobacco has become the number one export product of the American colonies. Britain know their colonial control of the tobacco industry, began to drive down the price of tobacco and began to collect taxes, and eventually led to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (sometimes also referred to as the tobacco war).
Tobacco popular, while more and more people began to realize the danger. In 1791, the London physician John Hill observed something in tobacco can cause nasal cancer.
Nevertheless, the emergence of cigars and cigarettes, to further expand the cultivation of tobacco. No one knows exactly when and where cigars were invented people, but rolled up tobacco leaves than loose leaves more convenient to carry and transport.
In 1830, Britain imported 250,000 lbs annually cigar, followed by the United States. 1850s, the United States has become the number one cigar consumption power. Now, it is considered the top-level Cuban cigar tobacco in the world. Many Cuban cigar makers in neighboring border city of Tampa, Florida to open the store, and now Tampa also been called "Cigar City."
In 1875, a man named James A. Bonsack produce a volume of cigarette machine, cigarette improved productivity and cost-effectiveness. His machine one day roll 120,000 cigarettes. Prototype machine was destroyed in a fire, but he re-created one, and in September 1880 to obtain the patent machine.
On the 20th century, smoking and tobacco continued to be sought after people. Doctors tobacco was also controversial, some people think tobacco is no harm to human health, and more doctors believe that tobacco is dangerous. In fact, many countries in the 1990s restricted the sale and distribution of tobacco. But as the tobacco companies growing and huge interests of the tobacco industry, the restrictions in the past gone after the 20th century. But in 1950, Ernst L. Wynder doctors in the "American Medical Association" magazine published an article in which he believes will lead to tobacco cancerous tumors in mice, so people still remain controversial tobacco is harmful. As for the rest, as they say, is history.
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