The Tobacco Reference Guide by David Moyer

by David Moyer, MD.

Chapter 4 History of tobacco in chronological order

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History of tobacco in chronological order: 1500

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When Queen Elizabeth in 1584 granted Sir Walter Raleigh a patent entitling him to

lands he might discover, he immediately provisioned a small fleet and his mariners

soon discovered Virginia, so named upon their return. The following year Raleigh

dispatched a second fleet to Virginia, where a colony was established on Roanoke

Island. When Sir Francis Drake visited that ill-fated colony in June 1586, Governor

Ralph Lane and others returned to England with him, bringing back the tobacco and

pipe-smoking practices soon popularized by Sir Walter Raleigh and other members

of Queen Elizabeth's court: "So that smoking gained in a little time, a fashionable and

polite eclat...and Elizabeth herself was as familiar with a tobacco pipe as with her

sceptre." Thus was ushered in "a prosperous time in the history of tobacco; princes,

nobles, knights, ladies, the wealthy and fashionable, all numbered themselves among

its devotees...and the convenience of a gentleman were considered imperfect without

a box of pipes and tobacco." By 1600 tobacco was widely used in all the maritime

nations of Europe.

Quote from Population and Development Review, June 1990, p. 214

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