War and tobacco go hand in hand as you will soon see and in 1776 it was used by the revolutionaries as collateral for the loans they were getting from France.ġ847 was the year when Philip Morris was established in the UK. Tobacco products gained a strong foothold in the US somewhere around the Revolutionary War. Some, such as Nicolas Monardes in 1571, went as far as to write a book to outline 36 specific ailments that tobacco could supposedly cure. Tobacco was snuffed or smoked, depending on the preference and doctors claimed that it had medicinal properties. By mid-century they started growing tobacco commercially in Brazil – it was soon a sought-after commodity and traded across the ports in Europe and the Americas.īy the end of the 16 th century, tobacco plant and use of tobacco were both introduced to virtually every single country in Europe. In the 15 th century, Portuguese sailors were planting tobacco around nearly all of their trading outposts, enough for personal use and gifts. However, thanks to a lot of seafarers at the time, smoking became an entrenched habit in both Spain and Portugal before long.
Jerez’s neighbors were so petrified of the smoke coming out of his mouth and nose that he was soon arrested by the Holy Inquisition and held in captivity for nearly 7 years. It was on Cuba and Jerez becomes a staunch smoker, bringing the habit back with him to Spain. Rodrigo de Jerez and Luis de Torres are the first Europeans to observe smoking. However, Columbus soon realized that dried tobacco leaves are a prized possession among the natives, as they bartered with them and often bestowed them as a gift. As they were not edible and had a distinct smell to them, those leaves, which the Native Americans have been smoking for over 2 millennia for medicinal and religious purposes, were thrown overboard. They brought gifts of fruit, food, spears, and more and among those gifts were dried up leaves of the tobacco plant. In 1492, Columbus was warmly greeted by the Native American tribes he encountered when he first set foot on the new continent. The plant today known as tobacco, or Nicotiana tabacum, is a member of the nicotiana genus – a close relative to the poisonous nightshade and could previously only be found in the Americas. Tobacco and tobacco-related products have a long history that stretches back to 6,000 BC.
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