Tobacco was first produced in Central and South America. In a temple built in 432 AD in Japas Belenque, Mexico, there are stone sculptures of local old men smoking. About 1,500 years ago, Central Americans We already know how to enjoy tobacco.
The first smoking people discovered in the world were the Indians. When Columbus arrived at the coast of the West Indies in 1942, he saw the local Indians rolling dry tobacco leaves into tubes. It is lit and smoked to produce smoke and a pungent smell; it is also seen that some people crush the tobacco leaves to make snuff, chewing tobacco or similar to the current pipe tobacco.
The origin of cigarettes Tracing back to the Aztecs in South America, they crushed tobacco leaves, rolled them in corn husks, lit them and smoked them. This form of smoking was discovered and adopted by the Spaniards in the early 15th century. In the early 17th century, paper began to be used in Spain Instead of corn husks, the improved smoking habit soon spread to Portugal, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and finally to southern Russia. In the 1830s, it spread to France. During the Crimean War (1853-1856) Years), British soldiers who participated in the war learned to smoke cigarettes and brought this habit back to Britain. As the number of smokers increased, people began to produce cigarettes locally. Of course, all cigarettes at that time were handmade until 1860 In 2000, people were still somewhat curious about smoking.
At that time, the United States was engaged in an interstate war. Although Americans traveling abroad had witnessed the uses of cigarettes, they still did not become the majority It was in the palm of Americans' hands. It was not until 1864 that the United States began to produce cigarettes. In the Virginia-Carolina area, the earliest record of people smoking was Samuel Shooler, a native of Carolina. In 1868, he witnessed a soldier smoking and Detailed records were made.
The first cigarette rolling machine was invented around 1879. James Bonsack successfully designed a cigarette rolling machine and obtained the patent in 1880. Since then, the whole world has There was widespread interest in cigarettes.
In 1913, Camel cigarettes, the first cigarette that mixed flue-cured tobacco, burley tobacco and oriental tobacco, came out. Its appearance greatly stimulated the development of cigarettes. It also marked the birth of modern American-style hybrid cigarettes, which aroused people's new interest in cigarettes. During the First and Second World Wars, this American-style cigarette gradually spread to Europe and even the entire world, making Smoking became more popular. The production and consumption of cigarettes in the world also increased year by year.
In 1962 and 1964, the Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom and the U.S. Medical Administration issued reports on the relationship between smoking and health. In order to reduce the harm of smoking, filter-tipped cigarettes came into being in the 1960s. In the 1970s, long cigarettes appeared. In the United States, light-flavored low-tar cigarettes first appeared, and in the 1980s, extra-light cigarettes were introduced. and ultra-light cigarettes. In the 1990s, some Chinese tobacco companies successively launched new hybrid cigarettes, adding Chinese herbal medicine or their extracts to the cigarettes to achieve medical and health care functions, such as the "Health Oriental" launched by Qingzhou Cigarette Factory in recent years. Cigarettes have the effects of nourishing the kidneys and strengthening yang, regulating the lungs and eliminating phlegm, and enhancing human immunity.