However, there are also reports that tobacco originated in the United States. Found by local Indians to contain substances that can excite nerves, they smoked their burning cigarettes at tribal meetings and sacrificial activities, and Spanish colonists brought them to Europe.
15 18 years, Spanish explorers discovered that Aztecs and Mayans smoked grass with empty reeds, and the Spanish also learned to smoke, so the first cigarette was produced.
16 12 years, John Rolver planted the first acre of commercial tobacco in Virginia, USA.
1843, French tobacco companies began to produce Spanish-style cigarettes, which were officially named "cigarettes" in French, hence the word "English cigarettes".
188 1 year, and the cigarette making machine with a daily output of 120000 was patented. Before that, cigarettes were all made by hand.
Archaeologists found in Palo City, Arizona, USA that in 650 AD, there were large pieces of tobacco leaves, side-by-side pipes and residual soot in the caves where Indians lived. These relics, after instrumental analysis, contain nicotine, which is inferred to be tobacco leaves.
Archaeologists once found a hollow straw with a tube in a cave at an altitude of 4000 feet in the Madre Mountains of Mexico, which was proved to be the product of 700 years ago by radioactive measurement.
If so, it is not only more than 200 years earlier than Columbus' discovery, but also the originator of modern cigarettes. However, this historical miracle remains to be further verified by archaeologists.
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It is generally believed that tobacco originated in America. Archaeological findings show that tobacco entered the lives of American residents when human beings were still in primitive society. At that time, when people were gathering food, they would unconsciously pick a plant leaf and put it in their mouth to chew. Because it is irritating, it just plays the role of restoring physical strength and refreshing, so they often pick it and chew it, which becomes a hobby.
Long ago, Native Americans had the custom of worshipping the sun and offering sacrifices to smoking. Archaeologists believe that the earliest evidence of human use of tobacco so far is the relief in a temple built in 432 AD in Belenke, Chiapas, southern Mexico.
It is a semi-relief painting, which shows a Maya with a long pipe and a pipe. At the ancestor worship ceremony, the pipe blows smoke and the head is wrapped with tobacco leaves.
Archaeologists also found tobacco and ash residues in caves inhabited by Indians in northern Arizona, USA. According to textual research, the age of these relics is about 650 AD. According to records, Salvadorans smoked tobacco in14th century.
Tobacco is native to Central and South America, Oceania and some islands in the South Pacific. It was found that there were 66 varieties, and only two varieties were cultivated and utilized, namely, common tobacco (N. tabacum L.), also known as safflower tobacco and N. Ustica L., and American Indians cultivated and utilized tobacco the earliest.
When Columbus arrived in Cuba on 1492, his sailor Rodrigo de Jerez (hereinafter referred to as Jerez) found that Cuban natives were smoking cigarettes from a plant around the fire. Adventure-loving Jerez smokes with local aborigines and is fascinated by it.
After returning to Europe, tobacco and smoking entertainment spread rapidly in Europe. Jerez is also known as the first smoker in Europe.
In May 1536, an explorer named Katie returned to America after a long expedition to witness Indians using tobacco. He made a more detailed account than Columbus: "They dried tobacco in the sun, and then hung a small bag made of calf leather, hollow stone or wood around their necks, much like a pipe.
When they are happy for a while, they slice the tobacco at one end of the pipe, light it, and breathe deeply through their mouths at the other end, so that their bodies are completely filled with smoke until it comes out of their mouths and nostrils, just like smoke from a chimney.
They say it can keep them warm and healthy. We have tried this kind of cigarette and put it in our mouths. Spicy taste is like eating Chili. "
The earliest record that Indians were the first people to smoke tobacco was the personal experience of Pan Shi, a Spaniard. Pan Shi described his second voyage to the West Indies with Columbus in 1497, in which he described the scene when he found Indians smoking.
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Cigarettes-Baidu encyclopedia