Tobacco In 1800s

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The growing of tobacco by humans was first started in 600-900 AD, The reason why this plant was grown was because the native indians smoked tobacco as a religious and medical purposes, In the 1700s tobacco plant was grown as a cash crop , it was .By 1800s people started chewing on tobacco and ocasionally smoking it in a pipe or a hand rolled cigarette.One of the most important dates for cigarette smoking was in 1865 where the first commercial pack of cigarrets were made by washington Duke.As the cigarret market started to build up the product was more demanded than provided so a man named James Bonsack invented a cigarrete making machine in 1881 , becasue of this machine , the product was mass produced and widly spread faster.In 1890 the

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