In the19th century, Americans liked to drink cold and light wine. In order to prevent the hot air in the mouth from reducing the freezing strength of wine, they drink directly without their mouths and suck with hollow natural straws, but the natural straws are easy to break and their own taste will penetrate into the wine. There was a cigarette manufacturer, Marvin? Si Tong was inspired by cigarettes and made a paper straw. I tried it several times and found that it would neither break nor stink. Since then, people not only use straws when drinking light wine, but also like to use paper straws when drinking other cold drinks. When plastics were invented, paper straws were replaced by colorful plastic straws, because the flexibility and beauty of plastics were better than paper straws. The inventor did not apply for a patent.
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