Who created cigarettes and what possessed them to do it?

Question

I mean, I smoke cause I'm bored. What were they created for?

Answer 1

Smoking has been around for a very very long time. Bits and peices of smoking pipes have been found dating back to pre-historic times. Smoking has been part of religious rituals, medical rituals, and has been used to just relax. ( In europe, they smoked something called 'sweetleaf', which was a mild relaxant, kind of a cross between tobacco and pot.) I'm pretty sure it was the american indians that introduced tobacco to europeans. It was smoked out of pipes during ceremonies, cigars were invented, and poof- little cigars became cigarettes.

I smoke because I'm bored too ;)


Edit- Waggy, they smoked BELLADONNA? Thats nightshade- it contains a toxin that will spead up your heart rate until it stops. People used to coat their arrows with that stuff to make them poisonious. Jeeze, I'm glad I'm not the one who had to find out that isn't the best stuff to be inhaling. I'm sure that wasn't pretty. (although, in low doses, it can help a weak heart. I wonder if thats why they did it?)

Answer 2

Tobacco use is first recorded (as far as I'm aware) in Pre-historic North America traces of belladonna, nicotinia africana and nicotinic byproducts was found in human remains along with smoking paraphernalia. The native Indians held smoking in high value and with colonialism found a way as a bargaining tool (and a form of addiction) So there isn't a single moment where someone rolled up a cigarette and thought it should be smoked! It has just evolved from pre-historic culture, but as time has gone on it stands to gain from cultural changes such as making money commercialism etc and that is where it has got to!

Answer 3

Most probably with the arrival of Europeans in South America where tobacco was grown and smoked raw, cigarettes smaller in size and refined than a cigar was created. It soon became popular in Europe also and elsewhere gradually with colonial expansion of the world by Europe.

Answer 4

American Indians grew tobacco and used it for pleasure and ceremonial purposes. After a person smokes they experience a slight high from the nicotine in their bloodstream and people believe that a high brings them closer to God.

Answer 5

tobacco was smoked for pleasure and for ritual by a few ancient cultures who probably discovered it burning vegetation and noticed that a certain plant if dry had a sort of intoxicating effect.

for specifics, tobacco.org has almost too much info if you want to pass some time.

Answer 6

using tobacco was started by the American Indians. They used it only for ceremonial purposes.

Answer 7

to kill people, and for the companies to make money

nothing more..

because why would they want peopel breathing in rat poison and 90 other kinds of toxic fumes?

Answer 8

they are created by the goverment, to make money so the doctors can make money so the health insurance people can make money and life insurance people can make money and the pharmaceutical people can make money and the retail people can make money and so on and so on and so on.