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After Latin American independence in the nineteenth century, traders in London, Amsterdam, and the independent Hanseatic towns in northern Germany, became important importers of Latin American tobacco. The markets for cigars and cigarettes in Europe contributed to the rapid expansion of the tobacco trade in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Nicotiana sylvestris is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae, known by the common names woodland tobacco, flowering tobacco, and South American tobacco. It is a biennial or short-lived perennial plant in the tobacco genus Nicotiana , native to the Andes region in Argentina and Bolivia , in South America .
Nicotiana (/ ˌ n ɪ k oʊ ʃ i ˈ eɪ n ə, n ɪ ˌ k oʊ-,-k ɒ t i-,-ˈ ɑː n ə,-ˈ æ n ə / [2] [3] [4]) is a genus of herbaceous plants and shrubs in the family Solanaceae, that is indigenous to the Americas, Australia, Southwestern Africa and the South Pacific.
Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-00596-6.. Source on tobacco culture in 18th-century Virginia pp. 46–55; Burns E (2006). The Smoke of the Gods: A Social History of Tobacco. Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-59213-482-3. Cosner C (February 10, 2015).
Nicotiana glauca is a species of flowering plant in the tobacco genus Nicotiana of the nightshade family Solanaceae. It is known by the common name tree tobacco.Its leaves are attached to the stalk by petioles (many other Nicotiana species have sessile leaves), and its leaves and stems are neither pubescent nor sticky like Nicotiana tabacum.
A cigarette dispenser in Canoa Quebrada, Brazil selling individual cigarettes for R$1 in 2024. Brazil has some of the strictest smoking laws in South America. Smoking in Brazil is forbidden in all enclosed public spaces except for specifically designated smoking areas. [1]
Tobacco smoking became familiar throughout Europe—in pipes in Britain—by the mid-16th century. [10] Spanish cultivation of tobacco began in earnest in 1531 on the islands of Hispaniola and Santo Domingo. [9] [13] In 1542, tobacco started to be grown commercially in North America, when Spaniards established the first cigar factory in Cuba. [14]
American Museum of Natural History, "Tobacco in Cuba" (2022) online; Cosner, Charlotte. The golden leaf: How tobacco shaped Cuba and the Atlantic world (Vanderbilt University Press, 2015) online; Morgan, William A. "Tobacco in the Age of Cuba's Second Slavery." in Social Struggle and Civil Society in Nineteenth Century Cuba (Routledge, 2023) pp ...