The earliest smokers in the world were Indians. When Columbus arrived at the coast of the West Indies in 1942, he saw the local Indians roll the dried tobacco leaves into tubes and ignite them, emitting smoke and pungent smell. I have also seen people grind tobacco leaves into snuff, chewing tobacco or similar pipes.
The origin of cigarettes can be traced back to the Aztecs in South America, who crushed tobacco leaves and wrapped them in corn husks for smoking. This smoking style was discovered and adopted by the Spanish in the early15th century. In the early 7th century, Spain used paper instead of corn husks. The improvement of smoking habit soon spread to Portugal, Italy, Greece and Turkey, and finally in southern Russia, it spread to France. During the Crimean War (1853- 1856), British soldiers who participated in the war learned to smoke and brought this habit back to Britain. With the increasing number of smokers, local people began to produce cigarettes. Of course, all cigarettes were handmade at that time. Until 1860, people were still curious about smoking.
There was an interstate war in the United States at that time. Although Americans who travel abroad have witnessed the use of cigarettes, cigarettes have not yet become the palm of most Americans' hands. It was not until 1864 that the United States began to produce cigarettes. In Virginia-Carolina, the earliest smoking record was Samuel Sholler from Carolina. 1868, he witnessed a soldier smoking and making cigarettes.
The earliest cigarette making machine was invented around 1879. James Bonsack successfully designed a cigarette manufacturing machine and obtained the patent right of 1880. Since then, there has been a general interest in cigarettes all over the world.
19 13, the first cigarette mixed with flue-cured tobacco, burley tobacco and oriental tobacco-camel brand cigarette came out. Its appearance greatly stimulated the development of cigarettes, and at the same time marked the birth of modern American mixed cigarettes, which aroused people's new interest in cigarettes. During World War I and World War II, this American-flavored cigarette gradually spread to Europe and even the whole world, making smoking more popular.
1962 and 1964, the Royal Society of Physicians and the General Administration of Medical Services of the United States reported the relationship between smoking and health. In order to reduce the harm of smoking, filter cigarettes came into being in the 1960s. In the 1970s, long cigarettes appeared, and in the United States, light and low tar cigarettes first appeared. In 1980s, ultra-light and ultra-light cigarettes were introduced. In the 1990s. Some tobacco enterprises in China have successively introduced new mixed cigarettes, in which Chinese herbal medicines or their extracts are added to achieve the function of medical care. For example, the "Healthy Oriental" cigarettes introduced by Qingzhou Cigarette Factory in recent years have the functions of tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, regulating lung and resolving phlegm, and enhancing human immunity.