How was tobacco first used?

Answer 1

Columbus saw the Native Americans smoking tobacco writing of "men with half-burnt wood in their hands." According to one story the first European to smoke was Rodrigo de Jerez one of the crew members with Columbus. He also brought some home with him to Spain. Spanish explorers in Mexico found the Aztecs smoking crushed tobacco leaves in corn husks. Tobacco had reached Europe as early as 1558 when a Spanish physician named Francisco Fernandez sent to the New World by King Philip II to report on products and he brought back some plants and seeds. The following year Jean Nicot the French ambassador to Portugal sent tobacco seeds to the French court of Catherine de Medici. The queen reported that the tobacco helped with her headaches and she named the new plant Nicotiana. Raleigh may not have been the first to introduce the use of tobacco to England. Some historians claim that John Hawkins brought back the leaf in 1565 after going to Florida. Either way the "dry drink" was fashionable in much of Europe by 1600.

Answer 2

The first commercial cigarettes were made in 1865 by Washington Duke on his 300-acre farm in Raleigh, North Carolina. His hand-rolled cigarettes were sold to soldiers at the end of the Civil War.

Answer 3

Tobacco use has been linked to pre-colonial cultures in the Americas, and likely far predates European presence there.

Answer 4

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