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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 4 History of tobacco in chronological order |
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| | History of tobacco in chronological order: Before 1500 |
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| | About 8000 years ago, the two species of the tobacco plant, Nicotiana rustica and |
| | Nicotiana tobacum, were dispersed by Amerindians throughout both North and South |
| | America. |
| | Tobacco in History, p. 3 |
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| | Christopher Columbus wrote that native Americans carried "a firebrand in the hand, |
| | and herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed." |
| | Washington Post National Weekly Edition, June 27, 1994, p. 6 |
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| | "The natives wrap the tobacco in a certain leaf, in the manner of a musket formed of |
| | paper...and having lighted one end of it, by the other they suck, absorb or receive that |
| | smoke inside with their breath." |
| | Bartholomio de las Casas, Columbus expedition, 1492 |
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| | The first descriptions of syphilis in Europe appeared at about the time Columbus |
| | returned, raising the unproven theory that Columbus introduced syphilis as well as |
| | tobacco from the New World. |
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| | In the era of Columbus, the Carib Indians of the lesser Antilles inhaled or sniffed a fine |
| | tobacco powder or smoke through a hollow Y-shaped tube called a taboca or tobago; |
| | the name tobacco evolved from this. |
| | Health Education, June 1987, p. 6 |
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| | Tobacco use among native tribes was so prevalent that at least 600 words in |
| | American aboriginal languages and dialects were used to designate different forms of |
| | tobacco. |
| | Health Education, June 1987, p. 6 |
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