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History of Tobacco

Scriptures in India describe smoking in 2000 BC.

Mayan Indians of Mexico smoked in 500 CE.

Arrived in Europe approx. 500 years ago.

Portuguese first to cultivate.

1586 Sir Walter Raleigh brought Tobacco to England.

Virginia in USA became largest cultivator.

1600 tobacco on sale in grocers and chandlers and public houses. Tobacco smoked in pipes.

Boys at Eton College required to smoke tobacco each morning to keep them healthy!

King James levees a 4000% rise on import duty for tobacco.

In Persia the punishment for smoking tobacco was suffocation by smoke, in Russia flogging, castration or lip-splitting. Fancy a drag?

1860's cigarette rolling appears in Britain.

1880's ready-made cigarettes on sale.

1962 Royal College of Physicians publish report linking smoking with lung cancer.

1970 ­ 1980's Africa, Middle-East and Far-East targeted as growth areas by tobacco companies.

Eastern European cigarette manufacturing is being brought out by western companies. China looks set to be the next market opened-up.

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