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Tobacco

Nic Roldan

Mr. Wilson

10/13/16

Tobacco is tall plants that was originally grown in Virginia, but is now also grown in big quantities in Turkey, India, and Russia. The leaves of the plant are dried, grinded and rolled into cigars and cigarettes. This plant can also be shredded and smoked through a pipe. Tobacco is native to the Americans, but has been recorded in the Maya culture more than 2000 years ago. This practice of smoking tobacco moved from Central America to the Aztec Empire then to North America, to the Native Tribes. Tobacco has been around for a while, the Arawak Indians smoked tobacco, Christopher Columbus smoked during his voyages in the 1490’s, the Spanish also took tobacco seeds back to the Europeans. …show more content…
The special sense, a pipe for smoking, is recorded in 1594. Of the early instances of the word, the following are worth noting: (1) British, all recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary—"He must have his pipe of Tobacco" (1611); "Now every plowman has his pipe to himself" (1683); "Happy mortal! he who knows pleasure which a pipe bestows" (1736); and (2) American, recorded in one or the other of the two most important dictionaries of American English—the ordinary pipe, cited in 1618; the pipe of peace, much larger and made especially for this purpose, cited in …show more content…
Jarvik. "Smoking and Health." Encyclopedia Americana. Grolier Online, 2016. Web. 13 Oct. 2016.

Chicago Manual of Style:

Jaffe, Jerome H., and Murray E. Jarvik. "Smoking and Health." Encyclopedia Americana. Grolier Online http://ea.grolier.com/article?id=0360440-00 (accessed October 13, 2016).

APA (American Psychological Association) style:

Jaffe, J. H., & Jarvik, M. E. (2016). Smoking and Health. Encyclopedia Americana. Retrieved October 13, 2016, from Grolier Online http://ea.grolier.com/article?id=0360440-00

MLA (Modern Language Association) style:

Partridge, Eric. "Pipe, Tobacco." Encyclopedia Americana. Grolier Online, 2016. Web. 13 Oct. 2016.

Chicago Manual of Style:

Partridge, Eric. "Pipe, Tobacco." Encyclopedia Americana. Grolier Online http://ea.grolier.com/article?id=0314000-00 (accessed October 13, 2016).

APA (American Psychological Association) style:

Partridge, E. (2016). Pipe, Tobacco. Encyclopedia Americana. Retrieved October 13, 2016, from Grolier Online http://ea.grolier.com/article?id=0314000-00

MLA (Modern Language Association)

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