According to research by archaeologists, there are records of human smoking as early as 1800 to 2000 BC.
In 1492, two of Columbus's crew members, Jerez and Torres, discovered that Cuban natives lit dry cigarettes and smoked the smoke. Jerez tried smoking, and he became the first person in Europe. smoker.
In 1518, Spanish explorers discovered that the Aztecs and Mayans used empty reeds to smoke tobacco. The Spanish also learned to smoke, and the first cigarette was produced.
In 1612, John Rolfe planted the first acre of commercial tobacco in Virginia, USA.
In 1843, French tobacco dealers began to produce Spanish-style cigarettes, which were officially named "cigarettes" in French, from which the English word cigarette came.
In 1881, a cigarette rolling machine with a daily production of 120,000 cigarettes was patented. Before this, cigarettes were all made by hand.
In 1924, the American "Reader's Digest" published an article for the first time to remind people that smoking is harmful to health.
In 1966, a new logo began to be printed on American cigarette packages: Beware! Smoking is harmful to health.
The cigarette industry has provided 2.3 million job opportunities for Americans, and these people have brought more job opportunities to the medical, firefighting, laundry, pharmaceutical and other industries.
Archaeologists discovered in the city of Paro, Arizona, USA, that in the cave where the Indians lived in AD 650, there were wide tobacco leaves and pipes side by side, as well as leftover cigarette ashes. These relics, after instrumental analysis, contained nicotine and were inferred to be tobacco leaves.
Archaeologists also discovered a hollow straw with a pipe stuffed in a cave at an altitude of 4,000 feet in the Sierra Madre Mountains in Mexico. Radioactive measurements showed that it was a product 700 years ago. If so, not only is it more than 200 years earlier than Columbus's discovery, but it can also be called the ancestor of modern cigarettes. However, this historical miracle has yet to be further verified by archaeologists. The following is the history of cigarette production in China: Most scholars believe that tobacco was first introduced to Taiwan from the Philippines and then to Fujian and Guangdong during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, that is, at the end of the 16th century. However, in 1980, the cultural relics team of the Guangxi Museum discovered three Ming Dynasty porcelain pipes and a pressure hammer at the Shangyao Ming Kiln site in Hepu County, Guangxi. The pressure hammer was engraved with "April 20, the 28th year of Jiajing (1549)." make". These objects raise questions about the claim that Chinese tobacco originated during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, some scholars believe that tobacco had been introduced to Guangdong in my country before 1549 (Hepu belonged to Guangdong during the Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, and the Republic of China), and Guangdong was the earliest place in China where tobacco existed.