Interesting facts about tobacco

 

Everybody knows that tobacco is the main component of cigarettes. But there are much more interesting things and facts about tobacco:

- The tobacco bush is from American continent and refers to the same plants family as potatoes and paprika.

- The beans of tobacco are extremely small; one ounce has about 300 thousand beans.

- People consider that tobacco was already cultivated in the 6th century b.c.

- In the first century b.c. American Indians started to use tobacco with medical and religious aims.

- Tobacco leaves were put on injuries and wounds as analgesic. And chewing tobacco was considered to reduce the toothache.

- Tobacco was first given to Christopher Columbus on October 15, 1492.

- After it tobacco was brought to Europe and all countries started to cultivate it.

- People started to cultivate tobacco when they thought it had treatment abilities. Thanks to it, tobacco spread all over Europe. It was considered to be panacea from any diseases. And there were even books that said that tobacco treated more than 36 diseases. Later people started to propagandise smoking tobacco as the way to make the body healthy and wealthy.

- In 17th century tobacco became so popular that it was sometimes used instead of money.

- In 1610 Beckon noticed that it was difficult to give up smoking.