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Natural American Spirit products in the year 2000 were advertised as "100% Additive-Free Tobacco". [citation needed]California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced on March 1, 2010, that his office had secured an agreement with the Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company to clearly disclose that its organic tobacco is "no safer or healthier" than other tobacco products.
Kinnikinnick is a Native American and First Nations herbal smoking mixture, made from a traditional combination of leaves or barks. Recipes for the mixture vary, as do the uses, from social, to spiritual to medicinal.
The tobacco plant, first used by the native people of the Americas, [1] later came into use in Europe and in 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.
The earliest depiction of a European man smoking, from Tobacco by Anthony Chute, 1595 An Indian man smoking tobacco through a hookah, Rajasthan, India. Tobacco has long been used in the Americas, with some cultivation sites in Mexico dating back to 1400–1000 BC. [9] Many Native American tribes traditionally grow and use tobacco. [10]
Nicotiana quadrivalvis is a species of wild tobacco known as Indian tobacco. The variety N. quadrivalvis var. multivalvis is known by the common name Columbian tobacco. [1] It is endemic to the western United States, where it grows in many types of habitat. It is a bushy, sprawling annual herb growing up to two meters in maximum height.
Before the Columbian Exchange, tobacco was unknown in the Old World. The Native Americans, from whom the first Western explorers learnt about tobacco, used the leaf for a variety of purposes, including religious worship, but Europeans soon became aware that the Americans also used tobacco for medicinal purposes.
Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company (sometimes abbreviated SFNTC) is an American tobacco manufacturing company based in Oxford, North Carolina, best known for its production of the premier Natural American Spirit cigarette brand. Founded in 1982, SFNTC became a subsidiary of R.J. Reynolds when it acquired the company in 2002.
British American Tobacco (Sri Lanka only) United Kingdom: 1894; 131 years ago () [18] Carpați: Sfântu-Gheorghe Tobacco Factory Romania: 1931-2010 Carroll's: British American Tobacco: Ireland: 1958; 67 years ago () [citation needed] Casino Associated Anglo-American Tobacco Corporation Philippines [citation needed] Caster: Japan Tobacco: Japan