| 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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