Who invented cigarettes?

The inventor of cigarettes is unknown. 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.

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The origin of tobacco: Before European colonists arrived in America, Native Americans had been planting and using tobacco for thousands of years. According to textual research, the earliest evidence of human use of tobacco can be found in the relief of a temple in Harpas, Mexico in 432 AD. This relief shows the scene of Maya blowing smoke with a pipe during sacrifice. In addition, archaeologists also found tobacco seeds 3,500 years ago in South America, which proved that humans had planted tobacco at that time.

According to many documents, Native Americans regard tobacco as a panacea, which can be used to treat various diseases, such as cold, headache, toothache, trauma, burns, abscess ulceration, anesthesia, tooth whitening and anti-fatigue. It is also called "holy medicine" because it can cure desperate diseases.

At that time, the way to use tobacco was to breathe the smell of fresh tobacco, smoke it through the nostrils after lighting it, grind dry tobacco and apply it to the affected area alone or mixed with salt and lime, chew tobacco and rub the inside of the mouth, and make it into a torch for smoking and baking.

In view of the special contribution of tobacco to Indian health, they often hang tobacco on ships near the island to show their respect, and smoke as part of the solemn ceremony during worship and negotiation.

Hazards of cigarettes: According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 4,000 kinds of harmful chemicals in cigarette smoke. Harmful substances in smoke can be divided into two categories in physical state, namely gas and tar.

Scientists have determined that the carcinogens in the gas are benzene, formaldehyde, hydrazine, N- nitrosodimethylamine, N- nitrosodimethylamine, N- nitrospyrrolidine, 1, 3- butadiene. Among them, benzene is extremely carcinogenic, which greatly increases the possibility of normal people suffering from bladder cancer and leukemia, except lung cancer.

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