On October 15, 1492, Mr. Columbus was granted dried tobacco from the Native Americans. The Native Americans of the US considered tobacco plants as an inheritance from the Great Spirit, and they used it in their religious practice sessions. Tobacco is an important part of Native American spirituality, even today they use it for their practice sessions.
Shortly after, sailors brought it to Europe and soon tobacco plants were everywhere. A huge chunk of tobacco’s growth in Europe was assumed for healing goods. To all appearances Europeans considered tobacco a cure to literally anything. …show more content…
Today, there is still tobacco all over the World. P. Lorillard is the oldest tobacco company in the U.S. In modern days experts believe that the tobacco we know begin improvement about eight thousand years ago. Although other plants around the world contain a small quantity of nicotine, the drug in tobacco, tobacco is native only to the Americas.
As its popularity grew, tobacco gained value. In the American Colony, tobacco was used as money throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In fact, in Virginia in 1619, the very first American Thanksgiving celebrated a satisfying tobacco harvest.
During the Revolutionary War, tobacco helped finance the revolution by serving as support for loans the Americans borrowed from France. Years pass and, more and more scientists begin to understand the chemicals in tobacco, as well as the unhealthy effects it produces.
A spanish doctor, Nicolas Monardes, wrote a book on the history of medical plants, in the book he insisted that tobacco could over 25 health