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Tobacco was first discovered by the native people of Mesoamerica and South America and later introduced to Europe and the rest of the world. Archaeological finds indicate that humans in the Americas began using tobacco as far back as 12,300 years ago, thousands of years earlier than previously documented. [1] [2]
There is a reference to tobacco in a Persian poem dating from before 1536, but because of the lack of any corroborating sources, the authenticity of the source has been questioned. The next reliable eyewitness account of tobacco smoking is by a Spanish envoy in 1617, but by this time the practice was already deeply engrained in Persian society.
Farmers discovered that brightleaf tobacco needs thin, ... Because of its importance as a research tool, transgenic tobacco was the first genetically modified (GM ...
The discovery of charred seeds in Utah's Great Salt Lake Desert indicates Neolithic man used tobacco as a fireside activity. Earliest evidence of tobacco used by hunter-gatherers in the US West ...
Aztec women are handed flowers and smoking tubes before eating at a banquet, Florentine Codex, 16th century. Smoking's history dates back to as early as 5000–3000 BC, when the agricultural product began to be cultivated in Mesoamerica and South America; consumption later evolved into burning the plant substance either by accident or with intent of exploring other means of consumption. [1]
It is possible he acquired the seeds from the Taino people in the Caribbean or from plants found in Bermuda (where he was shipwrecked with other colonists). This new Nicotiana tabacum (marketed as "Orinoco tobacco" by Rolfe) proved to be very popular in England and the first shipment was sent in 1614. By 1639, 750 tons of tobacco had been ...
The Tobacco Kingdom: Plantation, Market, and Factory in Virginia and North Carolina, 1800-1860(Duke University Press, 1938), a major scholarly study. Robert, Joseph C. The Story of Tobacco in America (1959), by a scholar. online; Swanson, Drew A. A Golden Weed: Tobacco and Environment in the Piedmont South (Yale University Press, 2014) 360pp
Canvas divided into four quarters. In the top left and bottom right is a grainy image of a home in a tropical location. In the top right, a photo of Elmer Holmgren; in the bottom left, a photo of ...