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As the demand for Tobacco grew in Europe, further colonization in British America and Tobacco production saw a parallel increase. [2] Tobacco use became normalized in American society and was heavily consumed before and after American independence. Tobacco distribution is measured in the United States using the term, "tobacco outlet density."
Tobacco was first discovered by the native people of Mesoamerica and South America and later introduced to Europe and 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.
Shredded tobacco leaf for pipe smoking. The history of commercial tobacco production in the United States dates back to the 17th century when the first commercial crop was planted. The industry originated in the production of tobacco for British pipes and snuff. See Tobacco in the American colonies.
Price, Jacob M. France and the Chesapeake: A History of the French Tobacco Monopoly, 1674–1791, and of its Relationship to the British and American Tobacco Trades (University of Michigan Press, 1973. 2 vols) online book review; Rainbolt, John C. “The Case of the Poor Planters in Virginia for Inspecting and Burning Tobacco.”
Smokers in an Inn by Mattheus van Hellemont (1650s). The history of smoking dates back to as early as 5000 BC in the Americas in shamanistic rituals. With the arrival of the Europeans in the 16th century, the consumption, cultivation, and trading of tobacco quickly spread.
State tobacco laws partly changed in 1992 under the George H.W. Bush administration when Congress enacted the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration Reorganization Act, whose Synar Amendment forced states to create their own laws to have a minimum age of eighteen to purchase tobacco or else lose funding from the Substance Abuse ...
The American Civil War in the early 1860s also led to increased demand for tobacco from American soldiers, and in non-tobacco-growing regions. [ 2 ] Public health measures against chewing tobacco (spitting, especially other than in a spitoon , spread diseases such as flu and tuberculosis ) increased cigarette consumption.
Aztec women are handed flowers and smoking tubes before eating at a banquet, Florentine Codex, 16th century. Smoking's history dates back to as early as 5000–3000 BC, when the agricultural product began to be cultivated in Mesoamerica and South America; consumption later evolved into burning the plant substance either by accident or with intent of exploring other means of consumption. [1]