Doing a research report and wikipedia seems to be misleading me on tobacco history because i know it has been around longer than the use by indians in the americas
2007-07-21 07:52:46 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
I found this for you :
Prehistory: Although small amounts of nicotine may be found in some Old World plants, including belladonna and Nicotiana africana, and nicotine metabolites have been found in human remains and pipes in the Near East and Africa, there is no indication of habitual tobacco use in the Ancient world, on any continent save the Americas.
The sacred origin of tobacco and the first pipe (Schoolcraft)
c. 6000 BCE: Experts believe the tobacco plant, as we know it today, begins growing in the Americas.
c.1 BCE: Experts believe American inhabitants have begun finding ways to use tobacco, including smoking (in a number of variations), chewing and in probably hallucinogenic enemas (by the Peruvian Aguaruna aboriginals).
c. 1 CE: Tobacco was "nearly everywhere" in the Americas. (American Heritage Book of Indians, p.41).
http://www.tobacco.org/History/Tobacco_History.html
There's lots of info, and it should be able to help you with your report.
2007-07-21 09:42:23 · answer #1 · answered by Kate 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know how it could have been used before the Native Americans; their culture has been around for thousands of years. Who was using it before them? The Egyptians? Is there any reference to tobacco in the Bible, for example?
Tobacco was introduced to the rest of the world in the 16 and 1700s as far as I know.
People did smoke opium and hashish in other countries before they had tobacco, though. But I don't think anybody outside of the the Americas was using it until at least 1600.
2007-07-21 08:07:14 · answer #2 · answered by majnun99 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will have to say that tobacco use has been around since the begining of man, but on way to start is with John Rolfe. He was one of the founding fathers of tabacco in the United States/ The Americas.
2007-07-21 14:01:56 · answer #3 · answered by Mrs. Arrow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think this question is unanswerable, because tobacco was developed by Indians and what they did, or found, or created was not recorded on record, it was also a great help in Jamestown. But this is what i think about this question. THIS IS MY OPINION, NOT FACTS!!!!
2007-07-23 07:15:20 · answer #4 · answered by nunya b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Indians had tobacco
2007-07-21 07:55:55 · answer #5 · answered by p h 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The smell of the smoke can get into the house from the neighbors. It gets on the walls, in the curtains and into everything. It will stay in the hair and the clothes until washed with a good soap. Smoking gets on the sink and on the fingers.
2016-04-01 05:45:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They were smoking opium in the Roman times.
2007-07-21 09:37:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, there may have been a mass inhalation of it, rather than it cigarette form, but we certainly have examples of that (one reason wiki is not that reliable)
2007-07-21 08:45:48 · answer #8 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
link below should be helpful ,with all the info.you need for your research:
http://wwwtabacco.org/resources/history/
2007-07-21 08:08:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-07-21 07:58:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋