The History Of Tobacco

TOBACCO SECIALISTS The History of Tobacco PRE HISTORY 6000 FOSSILISED TOBACCO FROM THE PLEISTOCENE ERA 2.5 MILLION YEARS BCE AGO HAS BEEN DISCOVERED. THIS IS EXPERTS BELIEVE THAT THE FIRST OLDER THAN ANY FOSSILISED MODERN TOBACCO PLANTS BEGAN HUMAN REMAINS! GROWING IN THE AMERICAS MORE THAN 8,000 YEARS AGO. AMERICAN INHABITANTS ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE STARTED INGESTING TOBACCO OVER 2,000 YEARS AGO IN NUMEROUS FORMS INCLUDING SMOKING, CHEWING CIRCA 1 BCE AND EVEN THROUGH HALLUCINOGENIC ENEMAS! THE MAYAN EMPIRE WHO CHAMPIONED THE USE OF TOBACCO STARTED TO SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE AMERICAS AND SHARED THE SECRETS OF TOBACCO WITH THE CREATORS OF THE AZTEC EMPIRE. THERE WERE TWO DIFFERENT SCHOOLS OF TOBACCO USE IN THE TIME OF THE MAYANS. THOSE OF THE COURT OF MONTEZUMA MINGLED TOBACCO WITH THE RESIN OF OTHER LEAVES AND SMOKED THEM CEREMONIOUSLY IN GREAT PIPES. OTHER INDIAN FRACTIONS ROLLED THE TOBACCO RESIN AND LEAVES INTO EARLY CIGARS. THE MAYANS SPREAD THEIR SMOKING CUSTOMS WITH NEIGHBOUR- ING TRIBES AND ENTWINED THEIR HABITS INTO THEIR RELIGION, BELIEVING THAT THEIR GOD, MANITOU, REVEALED HIMSELF IN THE BURNT TOBACCO'S SMOKE. 500 CE THE EARLIEST REMAINING PICTURED EVIDENCE OF SMOKING DATES BACK TO THE 11TH CENTURY WHEN A POTTERY VESSEL WAS CRAFTED DEPICTING A MAYAN HAVING A SMOKE. 1000 CE ITALIAN EXPLORER CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS IS ONE OF THE EARLIEST EUROPEANS TO BE PRESENTED WITH TOBACCO WHEN HE LANDS HIS FLEET ON THE AMERICAS. THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OFFERED COLUMBUS AND HIS CREW FRUIT AND TOBACccO, NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT IT WAS, COLUMBUS THREW AWAY THE LATTER. HIS JOURNAL RECORDED THE EVENT: THE NATIVES BROUGHT FRUIT, WOODEN SPEARS, AND CERTAIN DRIED LEAVES WHICH GAVE OFF A DISTINCT FRAGRANCE. LATER THAT YEAR, RODRIGO DE JEREZ BECAME THE FIRST EUROPEAN SMOKER WHILST SEARCHING FOR CHINA, JEREZ AND LUIS DE TORRES STUMBLED ACROSS CUBA AND WITNESSED THE NATIVES SMOKING DRIED TOBACCO LEAVES. JEREZ TRIED IT ONCE AND BECAME A DEVOTED SMOKER, TAKING TOBACCO BACK TO HIS HOMETOWN. THE SMOKE THAT WAS EMITTED FROM HIS NOSE AND HIS MOUTH SCARED THE TOWNSPEOPLE AND HE WAS ARRESTED AND IMPRISONED FOR 7 YEARS. UPON HIS RELEASE, SMOKING HAD CAUGHT ON AND HAD BECOME A SPANISH CRAZE. 1492 COLUMBUS VISITED THE ISLANDS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. HE NAMED THE LATTER AFTER ITS NATIVE TOBACCO PIPE. 1498 ALA 1564/65 1499 ONE OF THE EARLIEST RECORDS OF CHEWING TOBACCO IS MADE WHEN TOBACCO IS FIRST INTRODUCED TO AMERIGO VESPUCCI MONITORED AMERICAN INDIANS CHEWING GREEN LEAVES MIXED ENGLAND BY SIR JOHN HAWKINS. SAILORS TAKE TO TOBACCO IMMEDIATELY WITH A WHITE POWDER. QUEEN ELIZABETH IS PERSUADED TO TAKE UP 1600 TOBACCO SMOKING BY SIR WALTER RALEIGH. THE FIRST MODERN FRICTION MATCH 1571 IS INVENTED BY CHEMIST JOHN fiin THE FIRST TOME REGARDING WALKER. EARLY NAMES FOR THE NEW TOBACCO IS WRITTEN. DE INNOVATION INCLUDE CONGREVES AND HIERBA PANACEA IS WRITTEN LUCIFERS BEFORE BECOMING THE BY A SEVILLE DOCTOR AND MATCH. LISTS 36 CURES THAT USE THE HELP OF TOBACCO 1827 1846-48 1856 THE POPULARITY OF THE ENGLAND'S FIRST CIGARETTE CIGAR EXPLODES DURING THE FACTORY IS OPENED BY A MEXICAN WAR AFTER SOL- VETERAN OF THE CRIMEAN DIERS BRING BACK RICH WAR. ROBERT GLOAG BEGINS CIGARROS AND CIGAREILLOS. MANUFACTURING SWEET THREES. 1901 80% 1939-45 TOBACCO BECOMES A PRO- TECTED CROP DURING WORLD WAR II AS SOLDIERS RECEIVE 80% OF MEN IN THE UNITED FREE CIGARETTES IN THEIR RA- STATES SMOKE AT LEAST ONE TIONING BOXES. CIGAR EVERY DAY. THE MODERN ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE 2004 ENTERS THE MARKET FOR THE FIRST TIME. SOURCES: HTTP://ARCHIVE.TOBACCO.ORG/RESOURCES/HISTORY/ TOBACCO HTTP://ACADEMIC.UDAYTON.EDU/HEALTH/SYLLABI/TOBACCO/HISTORY.HTM HTTP://ARCHIVE.TOBACCO.ORG/HISTORY/HISTORY.HTML PECIALIST HTTP://www.JTI.COM/ABOUT-TOBACCO/HISTORY-OF-TOBACCO/ HTTP://wwW.TOBACCOSPECIALISTS.CO.UK