Tobacco was first produced in Central America and South America. In a temple in Belenke, Chiapas, Mexico, which was built in 432 AD, there is a stone sculpture of the local elderly smoking. About 1500 years ago, Central Americans knew to enjoy tobacco.
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 thick smoke and a 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, rolled them in corn husks, lit them and smoked them. This smoking style was discovered and adopted by the Spanish in the early15th century. /kloc-At the beginning of the 0/7th century, Spain used paper instead of corn husks. The improvement of smoking habits soon spread to Portugal, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and finally to southern Russia, and then to France in the 1930s of 19. 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 increase 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.
At that time, the United States was engaged in an interstate war. Although Americans traveling abroad have witnessed the use of cigarettes, cigarettes have not become the palm of most Americans' hands. It was not until 1864 that the United States began to produce cigarettes. In Virginia-Carolina, Samuel Sholler was the first person to record people smoking. At 1868, he witnessed a soldier smoking and made a detailed record.
The earliest cigarette making machine was invented in about 1879. James Bonsack successfully designed a cigarette manufacturing machine and obtained the patent of 1880. Since then, the whole world has been interested in cigarettes.
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 also marked the birth of modern American blended cigarettes, which aroused people's new interest in cigarettes. During World War I and World War II, this American cigarette gradually spread to Europe and even the whole world, making smoking more popular. The production and consumption of cigarettes in the world are also increasing year by year.
In 1962 and 1964, the Royal Society of Physicians and the American Department of Medical Management reported the relationship between smoking and health. In order to reduce the harm of smoking, filter-tip cigarettes came into being from the 1960s. In the 1970s, long cigarettes appeared, and in the United States, light cigarettes with low tar first appeared. In 1980s, ultra-light and ultra-light cigarettes came out. In 1990s, some tobacco enterprises in China introduced new blended cigarettes one after another, adding Chinese herbal medicines or their extracts to cigarettes 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.
When did tobacco leaves enter China?
Tobacco originated in America. Indians found that it contains substances that can excite nerves and smoked its burning cigarettes in tribal meetings and sacrificial activities. Spanish colonists brought it to Europe. When the earliest Spanish sailors returned to China to smoke, they once surprised their hometown people and thought they were dealing with the devil. But soon, the use of tobacco was implemented throughout Europe and spread all over the world. Tobacco was introduced to China in18th century.
Tobacco contains nicotine, an alkaloid, which is neurotoxic, especially fatal to insects, but it can stimulate human nerves, and its tolerance will increase after long-term use, but it will also produce dependence. According to research, all the nicotine contained in three cigarettes or half a cigar can kill people, but the nicotine inhaled by smokers is only a small part of it. Tobacco can also be used to make pesticides and extract nicotine, malic acid and citric acid.
Modern research has confirmed that tobacco still contains some carcinogens, which has attracted more and more attention. In order to protect public health, smoking in public places has been banned in many places. The laws of many countries stipulate that the words "Smoking is harmful to health" must be printed on cigarette cases. According to the law of People's Republic of China (PRC), no media or public places are allowed to publish cigarette advertisements. Thailand stipulates that cigarette packs must be printed with a large number of pictures of the harm caused by smoking, such as the damaged teeth of smokers and the blackened lungs of smokers, so as to warn smokers and achieve the effect of quitting smoking. Bhutan banned all tobacco imports and became the first smoke-free country.
United States of America
American Indians first used tobacco. Since it was adopted by Europeans, the demand for tobacco has increased dramatically. However, the climate in Europe is not suitable for tobacco growth, so the United States has become the largest tobacco producer and exporter. At that time, as the saying goes: "The United States started with tobacco", tobacco cultivation prompted the United States to use a large number of black slaves and became an important pillar industry for the formation of slavery in the United States at that time. Until 1883, tobacco tax accounted for more than one-third of the US government's fiscal revenue.
China
The history of China tobacco can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty. In the third year of Wanli (1575), tobacco was introduced from Luzon to Taiwan Province Province and Fujian Province. 1579, Matteo Ricci brought snuff to Guangdong, and the smoking population in China increased greatly. 1637, in order to ban smoking, Chongzhen ordered beheading to punish private vendors. However, Hong Chengchou, the minister of the Ministry of War who fought bloody battles in Liaodong and the end of Jin Dynasty, said that "the foot soldiers in Liaodong are addicted to this life", which hindered the process of smoking ban.