If so, what were they smoking? Or did they just not smoke anything at all...
2007-01-15 12:53:12 · 12 answers · asked by Buzzard 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
No, there was no smoking in Europe before Columbus brought tobacco back from America on his second voyage in 1493. The entire habit of smoking seemed very strange to the Spanish visitors, who reported of natives 'breathing fire'. Initial usage in Europe was snuff, and pipe tobacco. Cigarettes as such only kicked off after the Crimean War in 1853 or so.
People might have inhaled burning substances before tobacco was imported, but more for ritual purposes, and in no way was that widespread
2007-01-20 23:14:39 · answer #1 · answered by Ruediger H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clay pipe smoking has been in Europe for many thousand of years. Possibly the American tobacco was milder to smoke and it all took of from there.
2007-01-21 03:27:01 · answer #2 · answered by Whistler R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tobacco was a long and well-known product, imported from Egypt, Turkey and even from Spain and Portugal. The reason tobacco became the prime cash crop in the New World was that the British found it was cheaper to grow their own than import it.
2007-01-15 13:33:05 · answer #3 · answered by Gary E 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The bible doesn't mention tobacco, and the similarities between St. Nicodemus and nicotine are not worth mentioning. However; we are called to be good stewards of our bodies! The Orthodox Church and many other Christian denominations teach that we are not permitted to kill ourselves. Whether it be a slow death through poisioning (smoking kills - read the warning labels), or something more violent. I would say in the spirit of not afflicting your body with doses of poision, stay away from cigarettes. If you have an addiction, get the medical help you need to get off of the cigarette habit. Your lungs, air passages, taste-buds, teeth, friends/coworkers will all thank you.
2016-05-24 19:03:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the early 1600s James I wrote a treatise against tobacco
2007-01-16 04:47:44 · answer #5 · answered by Conservative 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely! forensic evidence 'busted' several pharoahs including 'Toke an Tamun' whose mummified corpse showed traces of both cocaine and nicotine. They were very definitely higher than their heiroglyphics.The smoke of choice among the labouring peasant classes who built the pyramids was obviously 'camel'!
2007-01-15 15:35:13 · answer #6 · answered by troothskr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably smoked opiate substances before Sir Walter Raleigh bolloxt it all up, thanks to that pillock we are riddled with a multitude of smoking related diseases and we even get taxed for the privillage. so in answer to your question,, No..
2007-01-15 13:11:20 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the french been smoking c*ck for years
2007-01-22 13:02:58 · answer #8 · answered by magoo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They didnt smoke or take snuff , because they didnt have tobbaco
2007-01-15 23:38:40 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats a good question... but i dont think you will find the answer on yahoo-try looking were you wouldnt usually or were you least expect and then you'll find the answer gud luck!
2007-01-21 22:26:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋