Tobacco

Tobacco In the year 1492, as every good schooling going American knows, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue. What everyone doesn’t know, however, is that his lesser known shipmate, Rodrigo de Jerez, brought back to Europe the first Tobacco leaves to be seen on the continent.(Facts,1) Seen puffing the dried leaves, A horrified Spanish Inquisition Imprisoned him for life on charges of being possessed by the devil.(Facts, 1) Strangely enough, that is exactly how the 400 years of dominant industrial tobacco abuse started, and it took it off faster than any other addictive substance ever.(Facts,2) The Cigarette itself, as before then, smoking was done in pipes and contraptions of that sort, was brought to the popular culture of Europe single-handedly by a man named Jean Nicot.(Facts,2) Nicots name was later borrowed by esteemed 19th-century scientists To name both the Plant, Nicotiana, and the active chemical, Nicotine.(Facts,1) More than ever before, tobacco gained popularity all over the world, after the European craze and prologue to the 19th century. The strange thing is, There is not one document of evidence to prove people were enjoying smoking through this era, yet there are countless amounts of documented quotes of people despising the “smelly tobacco, nicotine, smoke, smoking, yet, people, seems, put, plant, one, it’s, every, effects, death, cigarette, year, life, leaves, leading, known, however, first, fact, ever, chemical, cause, before, after, until, time, taking, risks, right, really