The history of tobacco

Tobacco is the present of gods. At least the ancient tribes of South America thought this way. They considered that gods are fond of tobacco smoke that is why shamans and priests had to smoke pipes from time to time breathing out the smoke into the sky, so that it would rise to gods. In some tribes tobacco leaves were put into the fire as the sign of gracefulness and honour to gods for their patronage. Very often tobacco was the method of the dialogue when the smoking of the pipe meant the end of any war between tribes.

Tobacco refers to solanaceae. It is considered to be one of the most popular in the flora world and has about 2500 kinds besides tobacco. For example it includes potatoes and tomatoes as well as mandrake. There are a lot of kinds of tobacco but to produce cigars only Nicotiana tabacum is used.

People consider that this type of tobacco appeared in the result of cross between decorative type of tobacco Nicotiana Silvestris and Nicotiana Tomentosiformis. Indians cultivated it to use with ritual purposes. With nomads it was transmitted to Brazil and Colombia. And it goes to Cuba later than to other countries of the South America. However Cuba had the best conditions for its cultivation.

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The modern society is divided into two parts: those who don’t smoke and those who do smoke. And the second part increases rapidly.

Since tobacco was brought to Europe from America, it became the favourite smoking substance.

The attitude to tobacco is different and it changed during centuries. First it was the sign of prestige. Then it was the sign of commoner, later tobacco was divided into tobacco of good quality and bad quality. So, the attitude changed but it was always popular.

During the long practice more than 100 sorts were discovered and all of them were got from the two main sorts. This is the Nicotiana tabacum and Nicotiana rustica or the Virginia tobacco and the rural tobacco.


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